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the head of Lewis river, or the G. pitcheri, from the Falls of Verdigris river in Arkansas, 
both being referable to the lias. In like manner, such is the identity of some of the species, 
and the analogy of others, that no one believes that there is any other mass in Europe to 
which the marl or greensand formation of our Atlantic coast could be compared, and conse¬ 
quently referred, than the three chalk masses of France, including the greensand of England, 
the base of the chalk of Europe. 
The same is true also of the Tertiary and its minor divisions ; the creative power acting 
simultaneously over the globe, as to eras, has, from the beginning to the present, gone on step 
by step, arrested only by locality, producing a defined series of organic beings as to species, 
in which no re-creation of species in reality appear, but apparent ones merely, constituting 
one system, by which the mind readily arrives at the source analogous to the one from whence 
Egypt obtained her orphic egg. 
To this geological sequence, with those acquainted with the subject, there is no valid 
objection — being matter of fact; but a difficulty appears to exist in the mind of some, as 
to whether analogous products of different countries were created or produced at the same 
given time, or at periods subsequent to each other. But this can be of little consequence, 
even in theory, and none in practice, when we know of no intervening products, and of 
no facts which show a pause or cessation of production, except locally, either for limited or 
great areas : it being of little consequence geologically, whether a day, a year, or a million 
of years elapsed between analogous products of distant countries, should none other have 
been formed between those periods — geology taking cognizance of the masses which exist, 
or had existed, and not of periods of time in which nothing was produced. 
The fact that there is no repetition in the chain of creation, must satisfy every thinking mind, 
that from the beginning as made known by investigating the earth, but one system or series 
of visible organic beings have existed, and that the end or limit to creation from that source of 
knowledge is known, man being the final result; and such must be the truth, believing that 
he is so organized as to have perfect mastery over his body or acts, and for the same great 
ends relatively, that the “ Father of all ” has over the universe. That this high attainment for 
man is no groundless assumption, is evident, first, from accountability being the prime prin¬ 
ciple upon which jurisprudence is founded, every court of justice giving practical illustration 
of the freedom of the will, in relation to all the powers and acts of man. Secondly, from its 
accordance with the positive request from the greatest admitted authority: “ Be ye perfect 
as your Father in heaven is perfect.” And finally from the full confirmation, by the “Book 
of the Wisdom of Solomon.” There these words are written : “For God created man to be 
immortal, and made him to be an image of his own eternity.” Nor can a higher state of ex¬ 
istence be conceived from what we know, than that which man by perfect obedience to the 
superior power can attain. This knowledge of succession and progression without repetition 
in the chain of creation, is of the utmost importance, proving the existence of a law whereby 
stability is given to the whole system, which it could not have were there repetitions. 
