Vm PREFACE- 



Intelligence and Power. They farther show that these 

 extinct forms of Organic Life were so closely allied, by 

 Unity in the principles of their construction, to Classes, 

 Orders, and Families, which make up the existing Animal 

 and Vegetable Kingdoms, that they not only afford an 

 argument of surpassing force, against the doctrines of the 

 Atheist and Polytheist; but supply a chain of connected 

 evidence, amounting to demonstration, of the continuous 

 Being, and of many of the highest Attributes of the One 

 Living and True God. 



