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Deluge and assigns a sufficient cause, and Nature brings 
forth proofs that it produced a glacial period, and those 
proofs no later catastrophe has removed. 
It is now asserted that pre-Adamite man was in existence 
before the glacial epoch, and also that many sections of that 
race are still surviving ; it will be extremely interesting to 
know, how they managed to live during that long period, 
which caused all other creatures to succumb, and even vege- 
tation itself. 
The memory of the Deluge is everywhere to be found even 
amongst the remotest sections of the human family, and the 
account of it in Scripture is most consistent ; the alteration 
of a previous law of nature, by placing a large body of water 
continuously over the surface of the atmospheric ocean, its 
natural effect would be the equalization of the earth's tem- 
perature, and rendering its climate conducive to longevity, 
also absence of rain, the earth being watered by a mist, and 
the condensation of that vapor by the near approach of some 
foreign body, figuratively spoken of by the windows of heaven 
being Opened, assign a simple but sufficient cause for the 
Deluge ; the mode of removing the waters by a wind, the in- 
creased size of the ocean, and probable subsidence of a grand 
southern continent, the sudden refrigeration of the earth's 
climate, human life shortened, animal food allowed, all agree 
and unite in forming a consistent and truthful cause of that 
change which all acknowledge has taken place, and of which 
Nature has preserved such convincing proofs ; nor does this 
militate against the fact, that in some pre-existing epoch of 
the earth, there were clouds, wind, and rain, it only declares 
there were none during the antediluvian period. 
The fact of the globe having been subjected to various 
convulsions, which threatened its very existence, is not to be 
wondered at. It seems almost an impossibility that two vessels 
should run foul of each other in the midst of the vast ocean, and 
yet they not unfrequently do so ; the wonder is that during the 
immense periods of the earth's existence more catastrophes 
have not occurred, when it is considered how many impe- 
diments it is liable to meet with in its course, some of which 
