Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1860-11-17

tsr,ctn forces to preserve and continue these motions
The Egbt Of toe 6t three DAYS or periods, vas PT0oa
DIV continuous aud the gigantic growth Of vegetable
fossil remains due in plr to the continued hget ana
heat Of unendng day And this so, whether light be-
As Newton supposed emanaton from the sun, or, as
Ia Place was inclined to believe emanaton from some
luminous body or according 10 later hypothesis, an
unduatinr vibration Of an ethereal medium universally
ddused In the processes of the third day Of Moses,
Of only tventylour hours Duration succession Of most
wonderful phenomena is recorded The waters are gath
cred together the dry land appears and the earth brings
forth grass herbs and trees yielding fruit whose seeds
in themselves. In the previous days "God made or
said "Let there be- but the producing power is i'm
pared to the earth "Let the earth bring FORTH clearly
indicating growing and frucdyng processes, similar TO
those Of the present time The expulsion from Paradise
occurred before Eve gave birth SON. and the common
chronology places il within the first year Of Adams eH-
isteuce Yet full grown trees bearing, were in the Gar
den when man sinned-that Garden in which the LORD
God made 10 grog every that Is pleasant &c Did
those trces notwithstanding the plain meaning Of the re-
cord spring up instananeOusy, in Weniyiour hours
or in yearg Or shall otherwise interpret the term
day"
One Of the most remarkable instances in the Bible OF
the use Of the term day. in indefinite sense occurs in
announcing the punishment in store for Adam "ln the
dan that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die" Adam
lived $50 years nearly after he sinned. Did he die in
that day on which he nned? II so, his day Was near
" thousand years long Ills impossible to guess when
that day began or ended II clearly implied day OF un-
certain duration, dependent upon mans conduct One
n, inrludad the whole life
of Adam only, but Of all men, TO terminate only when
men shall cease to be- and this may be the most rational
Interpretation.
In bis fourth discussion, our author first successfully
combas the strange illusion into which some living phi.
osophers have fallen respecting the age of mankind, or
the perod since mans creation. Great reliance has been
placed by these philosophers the discovery OF hui
mar fossil remains in Florida near New Orleans, and
esewhere and in direct conflict with some Of their own
estimates in other cases. they very slow rate of
elevation even on the very margin Of the Mississippi
where human remains exist and arrive at the conclusion
that the human race existed in the delta Of that river
more than 81, 900 years ago. This astonishing result
our author denies and dsproves cOnclusvey. He next
examines the development theory Of Darwin and his pro-
totype Lamareh with the endorsement of LyeL These
philosophers have adopted the absurd idea that animals
nave descended from at most four or hve progenors
aud plants from an equal or less number" and that
probably al the organic beings which have ever lived
on this earth, have descended from some one pr
mordia form into which life Was first breathed."
Thus, the little parasitic plant may become sturdy
man. and scrap of sea-Weed q sea-serpent-
Our author happily exhibits the folly Of such notions
by this dilemma "either that all vtAlites whether mo-
uais reptiles fishes or beastslre immortal and undying
or that human souls are not 80" Either horn Of the
demm, is fatal to the whole theory. Our authors lin
its d. not permit him to REFER as fully as he might have
DONE to Hugh Aers triumphant overthrow OF the same
theory BY his striking array Of facts furnished by Geoo
gv to show that there had been signal depreciation
rather than Development Of very many vegetable and
animal species Miller has met them fully on their own
ground aud annihiated them. Our author next exam
ines the astronomical tables and calculations of the an
GENTS showing them TO be Of very great antiquity
none reaching back to period Of six thousand years.
de then examines the Egyptian and Hebrew chronicle
ges-giyes the views Of the latest and Sblest writers,
Bunsen and Lepsus aud concludes, with some doubt,
that perhaps few centuries should be added TO the COM
mon computation Of the age Of man. The volume
closes with rapid but pleasant sketch Of the monuments
Of lost races over the greater part OF the earth The
description Of the present condition Of Nneyeh is fine
That exceeding great city Of three days journey 10
"a which Jonah ives sent with warning message, and
whose requiem Nahum sung lost for centuries almost
from the map Of the world rises before US as if 70
" life again. And from the ruins hear the story Of
her greatness and her desolatou. The Median, the
Greek the Roman, the Persian, the Turk, the Arab,
have been there but emily to trample Nneyeh in the
dust Il was Nncveh no more, vast sweep OF shape
a." less mountaineering besides Opening, however, at
last, before intelligent search, those mounds reveal as
AT magical touch the realities Of the old ages. The
herald od,e Of Sargoa and SennsCherib produces its
registers on slabs Of aabaser and the archives OF their
state department are read from Libraries eff engraved
te The race is gone, yet restored. Wesee the Fast
ern despo and the aLiec! people. He wieds authori-
q" ", unchecked, over property and Gle they rather
'' adore him as a God, than obey him as man. The
restoration in whole and in pirt fits precisely the de-
d" Euealion found in our old Scriptures
Tue following extract from address recently delv-
cred BY Lord Brougbam, in Edinburgh, is exactly spP
cable 20 the authors Of argument "Should the
weight Of authority De required may assuredy ask
" If any one can pretend to be better judge Of phys
cal and mathematical evidence than Sir Isaac Newton;
Of moral evidence than Mr. Locke; of legal evidence,
han Lord Hale; all Of whom, after full enquiry were
irm believers OF the Gospel truths"
We cordially recommend the work, as one Of labOr
Gus research extensive scientific investigation in pOpu-
ar1ed FORM and Just and sound religious bearing and
hope it will be extensively read.