The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-02-12

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TO take them - orgsnic steps ana not at I'll equal in
duration SO that you sec the duration Of the time
secondary consideration and Of Importance And
In the ages Of man himself First he has the days OF
| infsncy-then Of youth--then Of mature Gge-and,
lastly Of old age none Of them Of the same length
and why fhould the rule be different with the globe,
which Is the great compound Of all life animal and
vegetable Therefore, the consideration Of what
length Of time these periods occupied is secondary
one; but they must have been Of very long dura-
tion the first period particularly must be very
long and the last period is becoming stll more
inten,e The tertiary period however much shorter
than the preceding that these epochs the
organic history Of toe universe and GLOBE but tho
duration Ct them was not equal and csnnet be well de-
termined We psy, therefore admit that these eosmo-
COMIC days stages of tho existence OF the universe
The begnGos Of the chapter Of the creation an intro
cuoiion giving in few lords the sum Of all tho wis
dom Of tho ancents. " In the beginning God created
the heavens end the earthn The Of creation is the
summing up OF the wisdom of the old times, but
cot ia with the views entertained whom Mo-
wrote The nations hadforgoten the Twin, God and
sgsnst the authority Of the Pantnelsm the time Free
creation the teaching Of Moses creation By the sim
pie act ot voon And the earth was without form and
void and darkness upon the face OF the deep, and
the spirit OF God moved upoo the face Of the wa.ers
Here we have grind description of chaos, without
tpopdipg to these words and hat Is the gaseous
state Viii IN has no form of itssf AID IA Invisible The
atmosphere in this il not lighted would represent
this chaos-"Ard darkness va, on the face OF the deep"
That Is because there organic lf but dark case
gous to what we find In matter Ths lecturer illustrated
this pr int OF his by tracing life from its pien
understandable condition Take it egg, for in
stance-it appears simple substance; but gradually
the organs begin to be developed until finally, life
itself fully presented but always the starting point
is the homogeneous Accordingly the state chaos
must have been this gaseous natter this
the opnicn OF the old fathers OF the church 81 Austin
in his commentaries SO described it, and he also looked
the days OF creation referring to cycles Of time
Sand the spirit OF God moved upon the face waters
Here have wster indie ating fluid matter whether
gas liquid property. This magnificent map indt
Gates the constant and action OF the creative will
the universe not in but over tho water as
the Pspthess would have it, that God is In matter In
the first ch apter Of John, find wha. this spirit was,
there Is described the great oso This is the in
troducton Of creation and now begins its devspemsnt
with the first creation OF light And God said let there
be light and there Light You will observe here,
that God did not create the light but merely manifested
IT, This step OF manifestation OF hgat can be under
stood by what find from the astronomer OF the
day, Hersche and Others who confirm the theory that
the first state Of matter gaseous condition Toe
manifestation Of light therefore first step the
alton Of life And God called the Light day and the
darkness he called night The OF the second day
the division of the waters from the waters' And
God said let there be frmaceut"-or as the Hebrew
word is, on expapse-" in the midst Of the waters,
il eo' This is the second step of the develope
ment Of creation Now, what is this irmanent or ex-
called heaven" Astronomy teaches the same thing
Here the lecturer alluded to the hypothesis Of place
on tho solar system the production Of light and the
not having direct reference to the point Of the leo
ture omitted. The waters above the armament
tno,e floating planets over our head and the waters be-
low tn armament are the of our globe. Now to
the evening and morning. what they and why is
the evening mentioned first? Because the evening was
darkness absence Of light, chaos but the morning
brought the dawn of a new light. This is progress We
have always the evening before and the morning after
The end of the dSy that which passes away to be
placed by the dawn OF day; and this progress
We and this crisis in animals ana plants and in geology
we find the principle wonderfully expressed, In
tracing in strata remains of animals which not
in existence, and which disappeared to make
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waters under the heavens be gathered together to
place" The water under the heavens that is the fluid
matters forming our earth itself Then, "Let the dry
lard appear First according to geology, it appears
under the surface of the water aud thus have the
formation Of the whole globe itself In the beginning
immense chemical revolution must have taken place
converting this matter into solid earsA This
Of tie second act is the creation Of plants Ths might
at first unsy mmerical and out Of place, but,
the contrary 1t is beautifully pa:ed here Vegetation
animals SO that this arrangement placed here
phosophicaly. 1t is great natural law tina.
ind epoch finishing without always finding the germ
the following epoch seeming. if may express my
self overlapping the other. We find the same natural
law existing history ard is it not the with the
p.esent existence Of man earth We have already
society in each individual which gives promise Of
the future world not to be fully developed here but as
connecting iiak between this world and the future just
plants fcrT like connection between the inorganic
snG organic periods The character OF these plants
aquatic and Of lower species to those ia existence
These plants may have exikted in the metamo-phc
strata but in the next lecture will have an opportunity
70 show that according to the chemical history of esrth
is considered es having been me.amorphos whioh
entirely destroyed traces veg tation vegetaor did at
all exist. TIE most admirably developed Law is the sp
yssrsEce Of the lower types OF plants aud ssiEal FIRST
and improvement and diversity after; vegetation
should exist before anas The first foss remains found
is plant but he would lot rely that fact Gone 70 sup
port his b. pothes This Is tbs end Of the frat period
We have frat the act Of creation sni state CT chaos in
the dsk Of the world We have secondly the mani
fesaton ofght. Thirdly the subdivision OF these great
primitive Eebula into great many bodies by those
mechanical physical, and chemical laws. Fourthly the
chemical combination and result Of this state ofmstte-
known to the water and sea- and dry land
With these the astronomical history of the earth ceases
and the geological During this irst epoch
what immense revolutions took place separ alton Of
the earth from the great nebus and concentration Of
these extended masses OF gas-an immense concentra
ticn and chemical combination the second revcu
tons Of the globe and then such revolutions that
organic nfe possible. Organic life flower too
delicate to live in such tempests took place at that
iue-so cannot be doubted that this eposh entirely
separated from the following There is nothing ou.
The remains Of thoee first plants to recall to the mind the
ides Of organized being during this epoch.
Mr.. Guyon announced that he would conclude his
reasonngs this subject in his lecture tomorrow eve
ming.