the account of Moses, the work of creation was ace 
complished, and the order in. which the fossil *re- _ 
mains of plants and animals are deposited in the 
-earth, has surprised, and has been ackydWieiper, se 
ry strata, and the diluvian depositions, could not” 
have been local or partial phenomena; but | rather 
than call upon a comet, with the abstracted philoso- — 
pher, to deluge’ the earth for every new geological — 
epoch—or to change the axis of motion of our pla 
—or to resort to any of his wild, fanciful, and j impious — 
theories, we should, with Sir Humphrey Davy, | even | 
prefer the dream that all the secondary strata were 
created, filled with the remains, as it were, of animal — 
life, to confound the isetcbre yy of our geologtal 
reasoners. 
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* The Baron Cuvier, on this sdhiet aes NE, respecting the | 
Jewish legislator —“ His books show us, that he had very perfect 
ideas respecting several of the highest questions of natural philo- 
sophy. His cosmogony, especially, considered purely in a scien- 
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learned ‘sceptics themselves.* | Se i 
It will be useless to push these arguments. Yerthed 4 
The catastrophes which have produced the second: ue 
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tific point of view, is extremely remarkable, inasmuch as the — 
order which it assigns to the different epochs of creation, is: pre- | 
cisely the same as that which has heen deduced from a geological 
considerations.” i ae 
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