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THE GEOLOGIST. 



be divided, re-united, caused to become monocentral or spherical, bicentral or elliptical, 

 or polycentral, having varieties of outline ; but the abnegation of its being, as an abi- 

 dance and voluminous property, involves a reductio ad absurdum termination. A space 

 appears as if you can do anything with it but nullify its existence ; an atom, as if you 

 can only combine or separate its units, — an individual existence without variety." .... 

 " The Genetic record also implies the existence of life before light as in the commence- 

 ment or in tbe beginning, before the exertion of such, — thought and capability before 

 the exhibition of geometric realities — the existence of the Creator before the creature. 

 From the first institution of antagonistic influence or force, although the indications 

 of formative abidance would be various, the rule in the long run would be subdomiuant 

 to requirements depending upon the numerical ratio of the prime forces, w T hether one, 

 two, three, four, five or six, and to the intermutual balance of these powers, aud the 

 static ability of their forces. Although the prime powers evolved would be the distin- 

 guishing exterior characteristics of this era, yet the internal exhibition of antagonistic 

 force couftictiou would develope inferior, medial, and superior organisms according to 

 the ratios, multiplying in inteusity of contradiction and confluence. 



" The sixth day being also an animal life era, it becomes consonant to the purpose of 

 our theme to speak of them and treat them as one, only with this difference, the fifth 

 era opens unto us all appertaining to curvilinear, circular, and hemispherical purchase 

 becoming ovoid combination and pointed repulsion, or the advancement of life into 

 death. The sixth era, on the other hand, opens and explains the limit of death and the 

 retrocession of death unto life eternal. The wording of the sixth day is: — 'And God 

 said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping 

 thing, and beast of the earth after his kind. And God made the beast, of the earth after 

 his kind, and cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth upon the earth after his 

 kind : and God saw that it was good.' 



"The main distinction between the fifth and sixth day is, that water is the vehiculous 

 medium of the fifth ; earth of the sixth. The fifth day tells the story of w r ave or uu- 

 dulant cohesive advancement with a tendency towards rest and parallel plane deca- 

 dence. The sixth as the beginning of arrest and retrocession, that of continuous regular 

 gradation and comprehension. It encloses all that has been done prior to its institution, 

 balances it, and struggles to lead it back — condense, and confine the volumes of space 

 within an harmonic boundary, and balance such upon an equidistant centre. As the 

 former eras were but the lustrous eviction of a life evading and relapsing into rigidity or 

 death, so this is the toned regular balance of progressional static requirements, leading 

 unto an eternal state of enduring stability, its oneness of volume harmonized throughout 

 its entirety. If the times of the six points had been simultaneously taken and originated, 

 the numerical relations of the internal harmony would have been equal, similar, and equi- 

 balauced ; therefore an octaedron of regular tension would only have been attained. 

 The Genetic record, however, tells us, and nature bears testimony to the fact, that time 

 elapsed between the institution of each of the six points, therefore we understand how 

 that although all must continually tend towards the true geometric centre of the uuiverse, 

 such point is not the electric status of never ending rigidity, but the focal realization of 

 eternal abidance, a referential gradation of harmonic rest and stability. This likewise 

 discloses the appropriateness of the idea of God resting upon the seventh, because the 

 seventh point being once attained, and such point centrifugally varied, the inevitable 

 conclusion is the exterior exhibition of eight balanced points as cubic comprehension, 

 when the six points of prime institution become as it were extinguished and null or 

 centre of each square, and become again balanced and developed at the points of each 

 square. AY hen the last trumpet is sounded, and the uew heaven and the new earth be- 

 come perceptible, then will eternal perfection have been attained, and the eighth or ever- 

 lasting era be inducted. Centrifugal and centripetal force will then have been truly har- 

 monized, and solidity, vacuity, and space influence concordantly appropriated. It may- 

 be that those who are possessed of, and have cultivated their superior intellects, may be 

 enabled to travel through the universe under the guidiug protection of the Deity, if their 

 intellects arc attuned consonant to His will ; whilst the inferior and non-consonant in- 

 tellects must have more restricted range. The inferior intellects, happy in their restricted 

 sphere, the non-consonant superior intellects, cropt of indulgences, their state, therefore, 

 what ! — will it be that, of an unsatisfied, envious yearning, or a pruning and reduction of 



