The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1865-01-12
For the Palladium.
THE TOWNSHIP LIBRARY.
Theseoiogical Evidences of the Antiquity
of Man. lS63.


OF Nan. lsS3.
! E.rv ons who wishes TO keep pace with the rapid
stries Of Geology viii be glad read tits last work
of ven.
NJ many years ago there some suineu; geolo-
g;s, among whom vas I'll. noted Hugh Miller, who
desed that the deluge universal. They sxusing-
Iy,sked OF their opponents, if the food s~eP: all
orr the earth, why not resttyes of "saa found
briei here and there 10 confirm the factg
Geological researches still wen; regardless where
10 truth might s but intent to know what the truth
ns and Lyell stands up with his book IN his
Ind and procIaims; here evidences tia. man
we'd before the flood and her. proofs of his being
ntornbed in the earth, thousands OF years ago here
IRE his bones found all Europe, in assures
and in the drift and the bottom Of lakes bays and
ohsr and here his tools of stone bronze,
iron and copper here the banks OF the Baltic and
el.where are banks mounds Of shells of oys-
snd other she'll fish, had eaten and ages
APO And who will answer Lyell can his statements
/, den led We will
. The book is certainly verv curious disclosure of
nteresting facts and will fail to engage the minds
4 all who have the least antiquarian spirit in them.
/ These developments began or two hundred years
ago, and will perhaps share the fate Of most new
discoveries Agasz tells while the asonishmsns
is fresh the exclamation is THE .hings true.
that they contrary religion But facts still
accumulate and become stubborn and irresistible and
then come. the last alternative Every body knew
these things before -
Elementary Geology, by Hitchcock 1850.
Elements of Geology. By Gray and Adams,
1868.
The student Of nature has but TO leave his door =
few rods, to find abundant materials for profound
FICTION. II he he geoogically inclined, let him step
to tine nearest gravel pit 70 a newly opened well
the river bank ana he will there find book opened
to his view, which if rightly read, will excite thous
and curious enquiries.
To soms these the books that stand med
the head of this article would be appropriate
panions he would fni here answered in . small
compass mos. Of the questions that would perplex
his mind as, how did the gravel sand, stones, clay
and shells get here How these things found
How the sand fine AMI the gravel rounded.
Were the shells living animals If 50, when did
they die ? Are there any shells like them in the
earth or sea :?
am glad TO find, tina. in common with all modern
theo- geological writers, these authors have yielded
the nvincibe testimony OF tie rocks which have been
teaching for countless that the sin Of Adam did
not introduce death into the world. And this record
extends through all tho fosshfsrous strata, 20 the
depth Of least six miles. Thus Htchc ock himself
theoogistl says geology, zoology and comparative
anatomy teach US, that death among the inferior sn
mails did not result from the fall Of Adam" And
Gray and Adams says There passages il
the Bible which imply, that death to the in
feror races, Immediately connected with the fall
Of Adam"
mol death is an eternal decree Of the Creator, to
every breathing thing not for SIM but for the fulfilling
Of his wise purposes.
I.arl "A in srt NAV 10.
avoided by every living r