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are but . small portion of those thrtmust 
whde“r to Tel that e « have mastered not 
results of infinite compkx.ty, resulte tvh.ch we can J 
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we shaU still find the clearest evidence affc-gn. ^ 
design of ;;n intelligence infinitely above ouis, which may 
reverently itudy, but can never fathom. successive 
The other branch of geological study,— that 
forms of life upon the globe, is too vv.de a subject to enter upon 
now vet I cannot avoid alluding to one point which is moie 
directlv allied to the questious we have been considering. 
Great as have been the discoveries of modern clieini }, 
tjiey have thrown but little light upon the mystery of life , t 
old distinction between organic "Slet ptod^ 
been found untenable, and it has been found poss.b e to pro 
from bodies p£» S tSj"u 
organized and unorganized bodies is brought out more strongly 
‘bweranhfn^m^ure^tate'the destructive processes of 
life, and form the compounds that are the resu o secie j 
and decomposition j but the constructive powers of the living 
organism are as much beyond us as ever. 
No li*ht has been thrown upon the origin of life, and thus 
each fossil that we find, even of the simplest form, is a proof 
of the Divine power, which alone can , bridge over the g 
+w comrates the living from the dead. . „ 
The researches of Pasteur and Tyndall masterpieces ol 
