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Infinite Spirit—infinitely good, just and wise—speaks through 
hature to man’s heart as well as mind. Only a short-sighted 
naturalist fails to perceive that the affections and moral senti- 
ments, in their perfection, are among the creations, and that pre- 
eminently they manifest the character of the Creator. 
In striking contrast with the searching philosopher is the one 
Who stands aside and doubts research, while he dictates self 
find others, instead of taking the facts as they are known, and 
eras from them the impression they are calculated to make 
4 i the laws they dictate, saying, perhaps geology in the end will 
nd the past very much like the present, with no system of pro- 
to case in a cabinet illustrating this life according to the ages, 
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si There Was doubt in many minds when the “Vestiges of Creation” was first 
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and birds of the Triassic or Jurassic. These facts and the actu 
of species, according to both geology and zoology, so stand before the 
World at the present time, that the bahective centr os must wait for new 
} velopment th in the spirit of his pt osophy, ,propound od 
‘ent theory, Let him st ut facts respecting variations of speci 
se ons basis t pri . ee y wages m veh, nafely to his conclusions ; 
the 8 great subject for study. But to push forward iew ; 
let ie and against the present parley of an is indulging in deluding speculation. 
my bring i and tell us, what species of ox or 
astodon was developed 
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