CONCLUSION. 
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Creator ? and when it is seen, that the true history of the changes which He has 
successively ordained in our planet, from the earliest days of animated nature to 
the present period, has been evolved by the comparatively recent labours of a few 
men of science, we may be permitted to rejoice in having formed a part of the 
zealous band whose researches after truth have developed so many new sources of 
natural knowledge,' 'sources, which at every onward step proclaim, in the lan- 
guage of the sublime Italian poet, 
“ La gloria di Colui che tutto muove 
Per l’universo penetra e risplende.” 
