PART II. Page OF THE MODE OF THE FIRST FORMATIONS OF THE EARTH, ACCORDING TO THE MOSAICAL GEOLOGY. CHAPTER I. OF THE MOSAICAL GEOLOGY:-ITS FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE, UNIVERSAL INTELLIGENT CREATION-ACCORDANCE OF ITS PRINCIPLES WITH THE PHILOSOPHIES OF BACON AND NEWTON, WITH RELATION TO THE MODE OF ALL FIRST FORMATIONS CHAPTER II. OF THE NATURE OF THE RECORD AND VOUCHER FOR THE FACTS OF FIRST-FORMATION, OR CREATION, CONTAINED IN THE FIRST CHAPTER OF THE FIRST BOOK OF MOSES, OR GENESIS CHAPTER III. ..... 145 ...... 159 TRANSACTIONS OF THE FIRST DAY OF CREATION, ACCORDING TO THE CHAPTER IV. TRANSACTIONS OF THE SECOND DAY:- CREATION OF THE AERIAL ATMOSPHERE-ASCENT OF THE AQUEOUS VAPOUR IN CLOUDS CHAPTER V. .... TRANSACTIONS OF THE THIRD DAY:-FIRST CHANGE OR REVOLUTION IN THE GLOBE'S SURFACE-RENT AND DEPRESSION OF THE ABYSSES TO FORM A SEA-BED-DEFLUX OF THE UNIVERSAL SUPERINCUMBENT OCEAN INTO THOSE RECEPTACLES-CONSEQUENT EXPOSURE OF A TERRESTRIAL SURFACE-ITS INVESTITURE WITH VEGETATION ......... .......... 206 209 CHAPTER VI. TRANSACTIONS OF THE FOURTH DAY: THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE MOON RELATIVELY TO THE EARTH, ACCORDING TO THE LAWS ORDAINED FOR ITS MOVEMENT AND REVOLUTION-MANIFESTATION OF THE SYSTEM APPOINTED FOR THE SIDEREAL INDICATION AND NOTIFICATION OF TIMES 225 CHAPTER VII. Page TRANSACTIONS OF THE FIFTH DAY: CREATION OF THE FIRST ANIMALS AQUATILE AND VOLATILE 252 CHAPTER VIII. TRANSACTIONS OF THE SIXTH DAY:-CREATION OF QUADRUPEDSAND OF MAN.... 257 CHAPTER IX. TRANSACTIONS OF THE SEVENTH DAY: CONSECRATION OF THE SABBATH - COINCIDENT CESSATION OF CREATIVE, AND COMMENCEMENT OF UNIVERSAL PHYSICAL OPERATION INSTITUTION OF HEBDOMADAL DIVISIONS OF TIME, OR WEEKS, IN PERPETUAL MEMORIAL OF THAT COINCIDENCE:-COINCIDENT INCHOATIONS OF THE MEASURES OF DAYS, WEEKS, MONTHS, AND YEARS, SUPPLYING A PERFECT FUNDAMENTAL EPOCHA FOR CHRONOLOGY. (See Note [II.] p. 307.) CHAPTER X. GENERAL CONCLUSION FROM THE TWO PRECEDING PARTS 269 A COMPARATIVE ESTIMATE OF THE MINERAL AND MOSAICAL GEOLOGIES. CHAPTER I. THE characters which unfold themselves to our view in examining the substances of which this Globe consists, point out to us some period, or periods, when the order of its structure sustained violent agitation and alteration. In every part of the earth, we encounter unequivocal evidences of disruption, dislocation, and subversion, of its hardest and most solid materials; and we discover remains, equally unequivocal, of organic matter, both animal and vegetable, involved and deeply imbedded in other of its materials, which are soft, or which must have been so at the time when those foreign substances were imbedded within them. Monuments so wonderful, and at the same time universal, naturally stimulated the curiosity of man |