392 CONNEXION WITH PHYSICO-THEOLOaT. 



plies an extensive fund of arguments, and lays open a new 

 and large field of inquiry, both to the Physiologist, and to the 

 student in Physico-Theology. 



In the fossil Flora, we have not only the existing funda- 

 mental distinctions between Endogenous and Exogenous 

 plants, but we have also agreement in the details of struc- 

 ture throughout numerous families, which indicates the m- 

 fluence of the same Laws, that regulate the development of 

 the living members of the vegetable kingdom. 



The remains of Fructification, also ; found occasionally 

 with the plants of all formations, show still farther, that the 

 principles of vegetable Reproduction have at all times been 

 the same. 



The exquisite organizations which are disclosed by the 

 microscope, in that which to the naked eye is but a log of 

 Lignite, or a lump of Coal, not only demonstrate the adap- 

 tation of means to ends, but the application also of similar 

 means, to effect corresponding ends, throughout the several 

 Creations which have modified the changing forms of vege- 

 table life. 



Such combinations of contrivances, varying with the 

 varied conditions of the earth, not only prove the existence 

 of a Designer from the existence of method, and design; bat 

 from the Connexion of parts, and Unity of purpose, which 

 pervade the entirety of one vast, and complex, but harmo- 

 nious Whole, show that One, and the same Mind gave ori- 

 gin and efficacy to them all. 



CHAPTER XIX. 



Proofs of Design in the Dispositions of Strata of the Carbo-^ 

 niferous Order. 



In reviewing the History and geological position of vege- 

 tables which have passed into the state of mineral coal, we 

 have seen that our grand supplies of fossil fuel are derived 



