﻿EVIDENCE 
  OF 
  GEOLOGY. 
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  only 
  in 
  very 
  recent 
  years 
  has 
  been 
  found 
  to 
  

   speak 
  with 
  any 
  distinctness 
  upon 
  the 
  question 
  

   of 
  Man's 
  Antiquity. 
  Not 
  that 
  there 
  is 
  any 
  

   change 
  in 
  the 
  general 
  bearing 
  of 
  that 
  evidence 
  

   as 
  it 
  stood 
  before. 
  There 
  is 
  none 
  whatever. 
  

   The 
  evidence 
  of 
  Geology 
  has 
  always 
  been, 
  

   that 
  among 
  all 
  the 
  creatures 
  which 
  have 
  in 
  

   succession 
  been 
  formed 
  to 
  live 
  upon 
  this 
  

   earth, 
  and 
  to 
  enjoy 
  it, 
  Man 
  is 
  the 
  latest 
  born. 
  

   This 
  great 
  fact 
  is 
  still 
  the 
  fundamental 
  truth 
  

   in 
  the 
  History 
  of 
  Creation 
  : 
  that 
  history, 
  as 
  

   Geology 
  has 
  revealed 
  it, 
  has 
  been 
  a 
  history 
  

   of 
  successive 
  Creations, 
  and 
  of 
  successive 
  

   Destructions, 
  — 
  Old 
  Forms 
  of 
  Life 
  perishing, 
  

   and 
  New 
  Forms 
  appearing, 
  so 
  that 
  the 
  whole 
  

   face 
  of 
  nature 
  has 
  been 
  many 
  times 
  renewed. 
  

   But 
  until 
  very 
  lately 
  it 
  was 
  supposed 
  that 
  

  

  I 
  

  

  