586 PECULIAR EVIDENCES OF GEOLOGY. 
ginning or prospect of an End, has no where 
been met by so full an answer, as that afforded 
by the phenomena, of fossil Organic Remains. 
In the course of our enquiry, we have found 
abundant proofs, both of the Beginning and the 
End of several successive systems of animal and 
vegetable life ; each compelling us to refer its ori- 
gin to the direct agency of Creative Interference ; 
*' We conceive it undeniable, that we see, in the 
transition from an Earth peopled by one set of 
animals to the same Earth swarming with en- 
tirely new forms of organic life, a distinct ma- 
nifestation of creative power transcending the 
operation of known laws of nature : and, it ap- 
pears to us, that Geology has thus lighted a new 
lamp along the path of Natural Theology."* 
Whatever alarm therefore may have been ex- 
cited in the earlier stages of their development, the 
time is now arrived when Geological discoveries 
appear to be so far from disclosing any pheno- 
mena, that are not in harmony with the argu- 
ments supplied by other branches of physical 
Science, in proof of the existence and agency of 
One and the same all-wise and all-powerful 
Creator, that they add to the evidences of Na- 
tural Religion links of high importance that 
have confessedly been wanting, and are now 
filled up by facts which the investigation of the 
structure of the Earth has brought to light. 
* British Ciilic, No. XVII. Jan. 1831, p. 194. 
