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Bibliothees Sacsa by Prof. Dana, of Yale
College, in the harmony Of science and rev a'
elaton IN regard to the creation: 'si'.' s,sS ~.
I'VE will now endeavor 10 present tl,,e, e y
substance Of Prot. Dana's account cf,l.e his
tory of creation, because It is the latest, clear
est and best we have seen, and must be &c
interest to every son Of Adam. lie saws
that geology proves our earth to have been
at one time fiery bail in space then dry
land and seas Appeared, with topical !,
cline, over the whole globe. AT a l#ter PEI :
riod, mountains began to enlarge, fhes dry.
land to expand, a temperate climate began
to gather about the poles, and tribes Of AMI
mails became more localized Then, in the
last age before man, the continents take
their full breadth rivers flow, eterY where
valleys are formed, the zones of climate be-
came nearly like our own, and every region q
of the globe has its peculiar fauna, Finally
the features, and climate, and life, atr,in all
their present variety, as man appear, 10 take
his place at the command Of his Maker 400
''fiis ideas regarding the produS; ION Of
light are peculiar, and as we have seen the
same views before, and now find thens or. G.
dorsed by Prot. Dana, we presume thet are
accepted as the most correct theory of light
by all who have paid anv attention to the ID
subject. He says, without mutual molecu4
lar-action, there could be neither light nor
heat But let il be endowed with Intense
attraction of different degrees or conditions, Z
and it would produce light as the first effect
of mutual action begun. The command, n
Let light be, was the summons to aetivi,y il,
matter. The plain meaning of this is, that
the matter composing the earth was IN exis.
tence before the law of gsvity, and that
when it (matter) was endowed with gravity,
the mutual action resulting therefi 6m pro-
duced light ; in other words, light is an eff
feet of the law Of gravitation." -.t q. i'''
"Tbe records of the rocks, Prof Dana as
serts, declare that the creations Of the ami.
NAL kingdom came not forth all at once, hut
in long progression. There was an age
when ell-fish, such as cuttle-fish, corals and
trilobites, were dominant. The earth was
then too warm, and the atmosphere too i'm
pure for more exalted forms. This was the
Silurian age of geological science The
next age was when fishes filed the seas
which is the Devonian age7of geology. Then
followed another, when reptiles, frogs and
salamauders commenced Land plants then
came forth, and were of exuberant o. owth,
to extract carbonic gas from the atmosphere
and purify the air The vegetable products
| of that age are now found in our coal fields.
After this came the Reptilian age, when
there were reptiles larger than whales in the
water leyiathan reptiles on land, and fly.
ing reptiles in the air." .'t's
"ln each Of these ages there were distinct
creations succeeded to determinations Of pre-
viously existing life. Through the Siluian,
Devonian, Carboniforous and Reptilian ages
in Amerca--fiiteen times, at least, the seas
were swept Of their species, and in the sue
cceding epoch not species Of tle former
occurs. All this occurred during the fifth
day OF Genesis, according TO geologists,
which may have occurred a period of more
than million Of our years"
| "Ile next epoch, the sixth, was the adj
! vent Of man, and the more perfect nam
mails, and Prof Dana asserts, with other ee-
ologists, that the VIII Die Plan tt creation had
evident reference to man, as the end and
crown Of the animal kingdom, and science
has no evidence that any living species have
been created since his appearance on this
| globe. 10 'As
There is no dispute whatever in regard.o
the order OF creation /; geologists assert that
! the orders of creation described in Genesis,
exactly accord with geological science, and
the records Of the rocks and Scripture are
in perfect harmony. The only subject Of
dispute, then, is in reference to the question
Of time; there is not, and cannot be any
conflict between Science and Revelation.
| A WONDERFUL F&cr.--There il living IN
Kentucky, about two miles from CINCINNATI,
Alderman woman, the mother of three chiL
dren, aged respectively about twenty four
twelve, and three months. al Of whom she
bas nurs, u at the breast from their birth [.
one of the most remarkable cases, rhysiolo-
gically, to be found, as we believe. One 9th
er circumstance i, - lie added. With the
national taste for beer, she is obliged TO sb.
stain from the beverage, because lie use Of
\ it makes more milk iilan The three suck-ces-
siye babies can consume. Our eyes hava
seen the babies-our ears have heard tie
mothers story. 1t is true.
(HumHton (O) TelegrqpA. : 7
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