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first article in the Geological Magazine for 1865, from which I 
have already quoted, in asking the question, “ Have we got 
hack to the first of earth's created beings?" and replying 
“ That is not for us to say," concludes his remarks with these 
words : “ Judging from analogy, then, the Eozoon rock of 
Canada was the foraminiferous formation in one part of an 
ocean which elsewhere may have borne manifold and higher 
species, and buried them in sands and muds, that have since 
lost all form and feature by the metamorphism of age and 
pressure, or which were altogether shorn away by wave and 
weather when the old ocean-bed was lifted up."* Nothing can 
be more evident than that language such as this expresses be- 
wilderment in fundamental thought, such as prepares men for 
any change. The theory of progression, as it has been called, 
is sick and ready to die/ That is, not merely Darwin's notion 
of the transmutation of species, but the theory of a gradual 
evolution of higher forms, either by creations or transmuta- 
tions. The grand, general idea, that the production of man 
formed the last step in an inconceivably long chain of de- 
velopment, which rose from a low first link fastened on some- 
where to a piece of “ fundamental granite," is expiring ! If 
“ manifold and higher species " might live in the ocean at the 
time of the Eozoon, why might not manifold and higher species 
live also on land ? And if higher species, why not the highest ? 
Here we ask our guide, if he knows the road beyond? and he 
replies, “No, gentlemen, we are off the track. I see no path 
either behind or ahead !" Such is Greological Science in one 
of its grandest features at the present hour. Pressed to speak 
as to even the way to light, it can tell us simply nothing. So 
we must think for ourselves. 
If, then, we give up the merely vertical movement of up- 
heaval and subsidence, with latitude maintained, and believe 
that since half an English county could be turned over like a 
turf on its grassy side, any number of such formations could 
be pushed along from tropical to temperate and thence to 
arctic positions on the great globe, we have, at least, one line 
of thought marked off, by which changes of climate, and all 
consequent changes of species, may ultimately be accounted 
for. We have also that in view, of which the sickly theory of 
progression, as it has been held by geologists, may be allowed 
to die, and the doctrine of creation, as taught us through 
Moses, may be seen in its proper scientific light. 
As a fuller illustration of what we mean, we must direct 
* Geological Magazine, January, 1865, p. 3. 
