primary stratified rocks. 6 D 
^ icture of those beings aifords, carry with them 
^ More forcible conviction of an intelligent 
creator, and the hypothesis of an eternal suc- 
f^j. causes, is thus at once removed. We 
^ ^ 1 demonstrable from Geology 
h 1 ^ ^ period ivhen no organic beings 
a existence ; these organic beings must there- 
ore have had a beginning subsequently to this 
period ; and where is that beginning to be found 
but in the will aud,^at of an intelligent and all- 
M'lse Creator? ” 
The same conclusion is stated by Cuvier, to 
e the result of his observations on geolo<>ical 
phenomena: “ Mais ce qui 6tonne davantage 
encore, et ce qui n’est pas moins certain, c’est 
q u a vie n’a pas toujours existe sur la globe, 
le ^ de reconnoitre 
duits ^ ^ commence h deposer ses pro- 
18-^1 vnl Fossiles, Disc . Prelim . 
lo-i, vol. 1 . p. IX. 
