primary STRATlt'lEU HOCKS. 5.3 
th the hypothesis which forms part of the 
leery of gradual refrigeration; viz. that the 
ers 0 the first formed oceans were too much 
eated to have been habitable by any kind of 
organic beings.* 
In these most ancient conditions, both of 
ail and water, Geology refers us to a state 
in^jS incompatible with the existence of 
animal and vegetable life; and thus on the evi- 
dence of natural phenomena, establishes the 
important fact that we find a starting point 
on this side of which all forms, both of animal 
and vegetable beings, must have had a be- 
ginning. 
As, in the consideration of other strata, we 
ind abundant evidence in the presence of or- 
r proof of the exercise of 
goodness, 
its pi'ogress of life, through all 
the^c^^K^.^ advancement upon the surface of 
go e, so, from the absence of organic re- 
niains m the primary strata, we may derive 
“^^Partant argument, showing that there was 
(wlfiT """ 
can n ” those of geology 
e-inn ^ ^PP^'aach,) antecedent to the be- 
ing of either animal or vegetable life. This 
higli, water^r!? ^le temperature of the earth continued intensely 
pour, CLl7 t d- or va'- 
g » '6 Muiospherc around the incandescent surface. 
