l‘UIMARY STKATIFIKD ROCKS. 55 
Having this evidence both of the beginning 
end of several systems of organized life, 
aftbiding internal proof of the repeated 
xercise of creative design, and wisdom, and 
power, we are at length conducted back to a 
period anterior to the earliest of these systems; 
period in which we find a series of primary 
strata, wholly destitute of organic remains ; and 
rom this circumstance, we infer their deposition 
o have preceded the commencement of organic 
life. Those v ho contend that life may have ex- 
isted during the formation of the primary strata 
and the animal remains have been obliterated by 
le e ects of heat, on strata nearest to the gra- 
nite, do but remove to one point further back- 
bdnt “ "I of organic 
em s; there still remains beyond lliis point 
‘ ■ ccedciit period, m which n state of total 
zzr of f'-o f""*'- 
granite ; and one universal mass of incan- 
Mr nr.1. a , distinguished.” 
239, iBtedit.8voO“TTer?r 1834, p. 
“dapt themselves to altered r"'^ 
commodate themselves to diff”'''rT*’ 
d>e subject p-enor ii difflicnt climates; but when we view 
exceptions terresW l’ to numerous 
d'c situations tl ' '' ^ animals seem intended to fill 
appear creatf>,l Hfcse were fitted for them ; they 
luodifioiiiiy, in conditions arose, the latter not causing a 
species,” P>eviously existing forms productive of new 
