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violent and sudden. Geology shows 
operated is the story which thl % s “Xttidea ofGod as much 
4. U niformitariamsm dispenses with the idea 
gass^spis 
".Stag ..,ld,"na.tab».e. in o.. 
n «nlar svstem from molecular chaos, the snapm n u 
the earth from the nebulous cubhood of its youth, 
mprable changes and immeasurable ages t P 
“die development of a living being from the shapeless mass 
of protoplasm we term a germ.” ± . 
5. The Edinburgh Review of January X P 5e S sor 7n hi 
nlands the theory thus enunciated; and the Piolessor, m n 
second atual ad'dress, in February last, confirms and extends 
his former statements. He recalls an op 11 ^ 1 ? f ^ 
ex Dressed in 1862, against the progressive modification of animal 
forms and proceeds to reason that there is a clear balanc 
favour of the doctrine of the evolution of living forms one from 
“f The evolutionists say, -Given force and matter, the results 
r St b \tde t di y b h e a grnnS n We Tan ogtS 
succession by the fact of observed changes. We cannot pene- 
trate to the ultimate causation; but by establishing the necessity 
f AdSJto the Geological Society, Anniversary, 1869. 
t Address p. 47. 
§ Nature, report corrected by Professor Huxley. 
