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from liquid solutions , or in the wet way — a process requiring a 
far less intense degree of heat ." 
’Ulus vanishes all that had been taught as geological science 
for half a century, at least, as to the original formation of 
granite ! 
Sir Charles Lyell also says, with reference to a co-relative 
part of the same theory, with its inconceivable high tempera- 
ture of 195,000° in the earth's centre, and its matter thus 
reduced to a gaseous or fluid condition : — “ The exact nature 
of the .chemical changes which hydrothermal action may effect 
in the earth's interior will long remain obscure to us, because 
the regions where they take place are inaccessible to man;* 
but the manner in which volcanoes have shifted their position 
throughout a vast series of geological epochs — "becoming 
extinct in one region, and breaking out in another — may, 
perhaps, explain the increase of heat as we descend towards the 
interior , without the necessity of our appealing to an original 
central heat , or the igneous fluidity of the earth’s nucleus ." 
And so away goes the foundation “ fact " of geology upon 
which was based the nebular theory of the earth's formation 
out of a gyrating globe of gas, consisting of intensely hot 
fused granite ! It is at once amusing and melancholy, now, to 
read over the words in which this rival and scientific view of 
the cosmos was so confidently put forth by Mr. 0. W. Goodwin 
against the old “ Mosaic Cosmogony." I repeat his words, 
pregnant as they now are with warning, as regards science 
falsely so-called, in its opposition to revealed truth! — ftr The 
first clear view which we obtain (says Mr. Goodwin) of the 
early condition of the earth presents to us a ball of matter, 
fluid with intense heat, spinning on its own axis, and revolving 
round the sun !" 
So much for the primary or foundation “ facts " of geology, 
which had been taught as “ science" in this country ever since 
the publication of Dr. Buckland's Bridgewater Treatise ; and 
which are yet graphically exhibited, in all the geological charts 
of sections of the crust of the earth, in all our still current 
geological works of science. 
But leaving the earth's centre and its now abandoned 
igneous fluidity, let us come to the oldest strata, heretofore 
taught to have been “Azoic," or formed before any organic 
beings had been created. The “fact " upon which this geolo- 
gical theory was based, was simply this, that what were 
* This is a very different and much more rational tone than the absurd and 
confident enunciation of a definite temperature of 195,000°, admitted, at the 
same time, to be inconceivable ! 
