The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1849-04-25

mr9niaE. anl 1si nave 1e4lc-lnrh un-
ring lhr yaslrsl 81 lie periods q whieh
ne hare hren speaking. onr eLisl rHis'ing
mountains were in bring. Eetfing ihrir
peaks too ards different consultations. and
surviving IN lheiF hlIlrness and lrsgsliiy.
even these immense Transitions. p. IL
Again. SPEAKING a he eansuis'srs Hiiirh
have renl oar cath. he SAYS. :. Such con-
WILSON'S WEIR indrsd oflrn slow. and may
have acrupird sges in their prngFess d
rampIelinn; Tor The Tacks that sere dis
taibe.l sre Frequently lille confused. lying
raund ihe central granite mass - srare-
M r.,l.e." d. IS. Again. speaking af The
change &C rlimale on our globe /: . This
may account for The comparatively recent
appearance 81 Man in The world. Long
before his aPpsGr5nce IRE find rte globe
,ssmiRy ,riih raess II beings. hui all Of
Them 81 an inferior creation 10 man. be-
ings of instinct. In these primal sges, the
Earth was moi vel li,ling habllaiinn fnr
man." p. 80. Tie speaks Of these things
ss .perfeelly in.ii.Pulahlr." And This
is The uniform testimony 81 all practical
Geologisl-. ['i'he italics mine.
Nav Why admit The CONCLUSIONS 81
Nichol IN Astronomy. and dnubl them IN
Geology, when arrived Al BY equally :. IA.
dispulahle" dalsi
II. Hear now Prof.. Babbagr. in his
Ninth Brldsewaier Treatise. written. as all
these ir.ailes were. not 10 undermine hui
10 establish The Christian religion. Bab-
bage has been ,leemed worthy 10 occupy
The chair nf Sir Isaac Newton IL tam.
bridge. Cor many years.
Z. In truth The mass IL evidence which
combines 10 prove The grea, antiquity ~
the earth. is 50 irresistible and So lin-haken
by any oPpn.ing facts. that none but those
who are alike incapable Of observing The
facts and spprrclanng The rra.oning. ran
far moinenl conceive The present Stale
&c lis surface IL have been The result ~
only 5000 years Of eaisleure. And IL
is now admitted BY all competent persons,
that the formation Of even those strata
which are nearest the surface. must have
corrupted vast periods. probably millions
of years. in arriving 81 their present slate. !"
pp. OF. 6s.
This he. q mathematician. says is sup
ported hy irresistible evidence"
Again i. l'oihnsc who are unacqnaini-
ed with this SCIENCE, il is Impossible 10
convey just impression 81 The nalnre of
that evidence by which multitude of lis
conclusions are suppnr;e,l:--esnlence ~
many case so Trcsisllble, that the records
of past ages are traced in language more
impeIishable than that Of The historian Of
any human transactions: the relic. Of those
beings entombed in HE Strata which ms
riads nf centuries have heapcd upon their
graves. giving present esi'lenre Of their
past existence. with which no human
testimony can compete" p. a..
I'LL. Would your space permit. { would
here quote The testimony MA score Of eler-
gymen, some Of them as eminent for I he.
ology as philosophy;-sueh as Chalmers.
auckland. taulhor Rrdgewa,er 'riea-
ti-e.) e. s. Faher. Conyheare. Ilarcouri.
Sedpwick. John Pye Smith. Principal oil
The Disseniers' Theological Seminary.
England, and many others. We content
ourselves with one sentence from Chal-
mers:
We conclude with aiyer,ing To the
npanimiiy Of Geoloeisls in one point, the
Car superior antiquity ~ this globe 10 The
commonly received date. We may feel
security rs to ihose points on which they
differ. Bnl where they agree, this seeuri
" fails. There is no naturalization al an.
lhoriiy amoLg them as TO The age Of the
world. where they leave popular opinion
far behind. and trace our present con'I-
nenls through an indefinite series OF mil.
lions oi years"
~. Listen totwo American Biologists.
Hitchcock aud SilIiman. whose pieiy and
love Of The Scriptures, no one who knows
them. can doubt.
so far from finding in the facts aud
Of Geology. any objections TO
the Mosaic records. find IN them a |
striking evidence Of the benevolence &c The |
Deity. For during the long periud be- |
fore spoken Of, the globe was evidently
Tor the residence of man aud
other animals that now inhab,t il. LIS I
former temperature was loo high. and lis
surface loo liable TO be broken up BY vol
canoes. and drenched BY dplnges. TO be a
secure aud happy abode for man aud
more perfect rares of animals that now
lnhabit il. II was adapted 10 the nature !,
and habits " such animals and vegetables
as we now find entomhed in the roeks.
Geological phenomena Indicate the opera
ion Of existing causes through periods Of
luratinn inconreivab'y long. And why
should we hesitate To admit The existence
If our globe through periods as long as
geological researches require. since Tie
acred record does not declare the time of
Is original creation; and since such a
lew of ills antiquity enlarges our ideas of
lie operations of the Deity in respect to
Duration, as much as Astronomy does in
egard 10 Space. Instead of bringing us
MO collision with Moses. il seems TO me
hat Geology furnishes US with some Of
he grandrst conceptions Of the Divine at
rlhuies 10 be found IN the whole circle of
luman knowledge. ~ Hitchcock Geo
NY Of Mass. PIP. 226, ESQ.