CHAPTER I. 
Contents :—Remains of extinct Races inscribed with certain Fragmentary Truths; The Moderns speculating upon 
the ancient Earth, as a mere physical theorem, revert to Pagan Philosophies, which these remains protest — Scrip¬ 
ture and Tradition insist upon the perfection of Adam—The opinion that the first men were of inferior power 
confuted by their monuments, the Pillars of Seth, and Cyclopean Ruins; The Archaic Records the oldest extant, 
and Sanchoniatho, Berosus, Manetho, and others, quoted in proof—Aleasured by our Notions of Time, that 
which is Past stretches out into Eternity—Time reined in by Scripture and History, the Earth too offering proofs 
of a Beginning and of a Supreme Cause.—The infidel argument, that animals and vegetables started into existence 
at the same instant, answered. — Of the Light mentioned in Genesis, chap. i. ver. 3, and proofs thereof — The fossil 
eyes of all extinct animals formed like our own, shewing that they used the same light as ourselves, and, judging 
from the colossal proportions of the Primitive Flora, itflourished in a heat which animals could not breathe — Succes¬ 
sion of Beasts, and of the recent Creation of Alan—Of Eden ; Geologists challenged to produce a carnivorous 
terrestrial animal which could molest it—Astronomy attests the pacific conditions of one (that) epoch of the Globe; 
Every region of the Earth exhibits numberless skeletons of contemporaneous herbivorous animals—The Fall; 
Attended by all kinds of calamity ; Fierce beasts; Climatal and other terrible revolutions in the dependent world — 
Atalantis, Europe, and Africa, the girdle of the world traversed by the historical giants, who built the stupendous 
monuments before alluded to—The carcasses of the Carnivora proportioned to the Titans they warred upon, and 
nearly extirpated—The Flood—The Backbones of the Globe broken, from the Poles downward—The Boulders 
arid other drift found over all the Earth in a certain line, show the manner and Universality of the Deluge —- 
The Ark admitted only the domestic Races of Animals—Scripture quoted in proof thereof — Recapitulation. 
I T will have been sufficiently understood by the Dedi¬ 
catory page of the Present, as well as from a former 
Memoir of Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri, published in 
1834, that our first intention was limited to the effectua¬ 
ting a vast Collection of the Organized Relics of the 
Old World, in the British Museum, without reference to 
this or to that Theory of the Nature of Things, Past, 
Now, or To Come. To wander across the desert Conti¬ 
nents of Time, in search of the bleached Skeletons of 
extinct Nations; to evoke from the dust of Oblivion the 
countless Generations which have passed away from the 
Earth for ever, were the objects we had originally in view. 
But Time, emulating that Eternity whence he emerges, 
seems to have wholly occupied himself in perpetuating 
the Creatures of his passing Reign, in the stony missals 
of the Dead. In recovering, therefore, the Effigies of 
extinguished Races, we have been tempted to secure also 
the inscriptions which accompanied them, quaint and 
intricate although they be, and of a style so old, that the 
appreciation of its Truthfulness and Beauty is almost 
lost. 
It has been so long the Fashion to consider Physical 
and Moral Evil apart one from the other, that we are in 
danger of reverting to the Epicurean Philosophy : nor 
has anything contributed to this more than the study of 
the Ancient Earth, considered as a mere physical Theorem, 
by many laborious arguments in which the Moderns 
toil to the same conclusions which circulated in Pagan 
Greece and Rome. 
But the Awful Wrecks compassing us round about, and 
restless Eld murmuring ever in our ear, and abhorrent 
Heaven himself, eclipsed, but not extinguished, protest 
against the cheerless Spirit of Knowledge, by which all 
Things are referred to insensate Matter and icy Dream; 
and beckon us from the Paradise of Fools, within whose 
Magic Circle so many Souls have madly staked and lost 
their all. 
1. The Fortunes of Mankind have an Orbit, the peri¬ 
helion being with Adam, the aphelion with the Flood. 
Perfect in the Image of his Maker, stored with all Good¬ 
ness, our ancestral demi-god wielded the Ministers of 
Power obedient to his unquestioned Will. Such is the 
Basis of Scripture, and such also is the legitimate de¬ 
duction of History. But incontinent Liberality deceiving 
Faith, Reason, empty with the fumes of that same 
flattery by which we originally fell, cometh of the unhal¬ 
lowed embrace, and finding in the crust of the Earth 
certain animal Types which ascend in the progress of 
Time, from the more simple to the complex; stealing a 
Sophism from “ The Garden” of the Vulgar Greeks, 
avers that Matter, like “ the Nilotic Mud,” generated 
Creatures with the mere dawn of life, which improving 
upon themselves, at last elicited a man; a man like to 
all previous existences, imperfect, rudimental, savage. 
We care not how much the offensive Thesis is laughed 
at in the person of grotesque Lamark; its essential prin¬ 
ciples are sedulously upheld by every ancillary that can 
be impressed covertly in its hollow cause. Here then, 
beloved Reader, in the first stage, we unmask an assassin 
which waylays the Doctrines of Sin, and of the Right¬ 
eousness of God. 
The experience, the reputation of all Nations, all 
Climes challenge, and indignantly denounce any such 
an opinion. The political and other Sciences in which the 
ancients so infinitely excelled ourselves; the Cyclopean 
Mounds of Antediluvian Masonry, and the Memory of 
Seth, co-equal with his haught Pillars, bequeathed to 
latest Posterity: These imperishable Towers, misnamed, 
in the teeth of Josephus, the Pyramids, and these en- 
duringWalls, vainly christened Pelasgian, were the work 
of emphatically the sons of Jehovah : Their beginning hid 
in the hoar of ages, puny men now peer about and around 
them, and actually correct and square their own imper¬ 
fect traditionary lore of the Firmament by the Measure 
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