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the head of Lewis river, or the G. pitcheri, from the Falls of A^'erdigris river in Arkansas, 

 both being referable to the lias. 'T^like manner, such is the identity of some of the species, 

 and the analogy of others, that no one believes that there is any other mass in Europe to 

 which the marl or greensand formation of our Atlantic coast could be compared, and conse- 

 quently referred, than the three chalk masses of France, including the greensand of England, 

 the base of the chalk of Europe. 



The same is true also of the Tertiary and its minor divisions ; the creative power acting 

 simultaneously over the globe, as to eras, has, from the beginning to the present, gone on step 

 by step, arrested only by locality, producing a defined series of organic beings as to species, 

 in which no re-creation of species in reality appear, but apparent ones merely, constituting 

 one system, by which the mind readily arrives at the source analogous to the one from whence 

 Egypt obtained her orphic egg. 



To this geological sequence, with those acquainted with the subject, there is no valid 

 objection — being matter of fact ; but a difficulty appears to exist in the mind of some, as 

 to whether analogous products of different countries were created or produced at the same 

 given lime, or at periods subsequent to each other. But this can be of little consequence, 

 even in theory, and none in pfaclice, when we know of no intervening products, and of 

 no facts which show a pause or cessation of production, except locally, either for hmited or 

 great areas : it being of little consequence geologically, whether a day, a year, or a million 

 of years elapsed between analogous products of distant countries, should none other have 

 been formed between those periods — geology taking cognizance of the masses which exist, 

 or had existed, and not of periods of time in which nothing was produced. 



The fact that there is no repetition in the chain of creation, must satisfy every thinking mind, 

 that from the beginning as made known by investigating the earth, but one system or series 

 of visible organic beings have existed, and that the end or limit to creation from that source of 

 knowledge is known, man being the final result ; and such must be the truth, beli-eving that 

 he is so organized as to have perfect mastery over his body or acts, and for the same great 

 ends relatively, that the " Father of all " has over the universe. That this high attainment for 

 man is no groundless assumption, is evident, first, from accountability being the prime prin- 

 ciple upon which jurisprudence is founded, every court of justice giving practical illustration 

 of the freedom of the will, in relation to all the powers and acts of man. Secondly, from its 

 accordance with the positive request from the greatest admitted authority : " Be ye perfect 

 as your Father in heaven is perfect." And finally from the full confirmation, by the "Book 

 of the Wisdom of Solomon." There these words are written : " For God created man to be 

 immortal, and made him to be an image of his own eternity." Nor can a higher state of ex- 

 istence be conceived from what we know, than that which man by perfect obedience to the 

 superior power can attain. This knowledge of succession and progression without repetition 

 in the chain of creation, is of the utmost importance, proving the existence of a law whereby 

 subility is given to the whole system, which it could not have were there repetitions. 



