PHOOFS OF EVOLUTION. 
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IV. 
PROOFS FROM GEOLOGY. 
Among the strongest proofs of Universal devel¬ 
opment, are those drawn from geological study. 
The earth has entombed all organic forms that 
have ever lived, and awaits the inevitable hour to 
receive all that live and breathe to-day. The 
process which everywhere goes on is one of evolu¬ 
tion and revolution. Every disappearance is 
followed by a new form, readjusted upon a higher 
plane. The Earth is the Great Stone Book, giving 
us, as we turn the strata-leaves, illuminated 
pictures in bas-relief of the life-forms of past 
ages. What a Revelation ! written by the finger 
of Time on the rock of Ages, and by the ink of 
Death. Nothing can falsify the record. It is 
immutable, and antedates by millions of years the 
printed books of man, which assume, with much 
pomp and circumstance, to tell us all about the 
beginnings of things. 
Geology finds in the lower strata of rocks, just 
what we might expect to see if evolution is true: 
First, only the lowest forms of animal life, and 
