The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1871-11-28


an introduction to Divine revelation, aud
on both accounts necessarily limited in
the matter aud brief in the narration.
But these skepticaI goolcgist, who per.
haps have called in the aid of spirits in
forming their aut-bblical theories, and
Tor that reason we presume deem them
selves iulaliblc. will have the whole
heightened pc RODS from the fossil shells
of the lower Silurian formation or even
the Eozoon Of the Laurentian, down to
man himself, given IN the statements Of
Moses, iu precise aud regular order of
development, as are the processes Of de-
monstration III the solution of problem
of Uncid But what ii Eozjun Cana.
deuse existed in the Laurentian strata;
and Cystids, Trilobites, Orthoceratitcs,
Gystcropods, Crdstaclaus, Crnoids etc,
in the Siluriau; Brachiopods, Corals and
Fishes in the Devouiau; aud these latter
with marine animals i'll general in the
Carboniferous and Saurlaus and Llbyriu-
heGonts in the Trsair aud Plesiosaurs,
Ichthyosaurs, Gar-pikes, and lguandon
in the Jurassic; aud Lizards, Sharks aud
Ammonites in the Cretaceous, and Shells
Sea- urchius, Zeuglodon, Urodies, Orb.
toides, with extinct mammals III the Ter
tiary, what became Of them all at this
period, even if they had existed till then
the next to the post tertiary, or what be-
came OF the then existing animals,
since in this period (tcrtiary) that
great "dsruption" ito use the Ian
guagc Of Lardner,)" occurred, disrup-
ton Of the earth's crust, extending w.
Ii deg s., and +. IL deg. N, through
which the chain Of the great Alps was
forced up to It's present elevation, which
faced up the CHILEAN Andes, chain which
extends over length of 5000 miles Of
the Western Continent, terminated the
tertiary age, and proceeded Immediately
the creation Of the human race and lis
couconitant tribes. The waters of the
seas and oceans. lifted up from their beds
by this immense perturbation, swept over
t the continents with irresistible force, de-
stroying instantaneously the entire flora
and fauna Of the last Tertiary period, and
burying its ruins in tho scdimentary de-
posts which ensued. When tho seas
had settled luto their new beds, aud the
. outlines OF the land were permanently de.
fined, the latest and greatest uct of crea-
, ton was accomplished, by clothing the
vegetation which now covers it, peopliug
the laud and the water with the animal,
tribes, which now exist, aud calling into
} being the human race The most con-
,picuous condition which distinguishes
: the present race from all past periods, Ii
the existence Of the human race among it:
fauna, the attributes of which are 80 pecu
liar, as to place it out of all analogy witt
| other classes Of uuimals. Auother strik.
ing physical difference, between the pres
q. cut aud all former periods, consists III the
different divisions Of the earh's surface
: into Chronological zones, each zone hav
8 Ing its peculiar fauna aud fiOra. La all
S former ages and periods, including hos
d which immediately preceding the present
e no traces of climate difference have beer
e 70 nj" Thu, LarIucr. Now what /
u there in this statement inconsistent Will
h Moses. Take first what is said Of "cli
= maic difference" Tnis must according It
= the Mosaic record have been recent, as
y could not have happened before the cart
Is took her present position with Teicrcuc
e to the sun. But, as | have shown, ther
y was long and indefinite period bcior
" the sun became Its source vi light au
re heat. Thus geology asserts likewise. u
II we have seen, "tnat before the preset
p past tertiary, human period, there was III
c, difference of climate, that the earth wa
is not dependent GU the SUI for its temper
T. ature, that there was apparently Que uu
,e form high temperature over the who
g earth, and cons, quently that tn
e. fora and fauna of warm climates al
lc found, in the prehuman period IN lat
Of tudes where they could not now exist
N What remarkable instance Of the eA
traordinary scientific accuracy of til
D. Mosaic records. Then, secondly, motto
Of how that it crowd4 the creation Of tt
present animal and vegetable kingdom il
ct to the present human pot tertiary perlo
he For the destructive cataclysms referred t
u as it terminated the last pre.human per
n cd, so it paved the way for the repeepr
IN and reclothing OF the earth with Its pre-
I'd ent living forms. Aud this too is VIII
1t verse 10Th OF the Genescai account d
g clares. That some Of these forms existe
e. in former periods, and are traced back
one 81 remotl as the Silurian fit be :
ne in 10 wise initiates against their ben
b. called into existence again.
u Now the reasoning Of a man or set
ny men, whom commenting on this and su
III sequcnt verses in Genesis, and who IN o
he der to make out their point against Il
en- Bible, do wholly ignore these acknowled
ch ed facts oftheir own ilks, show in doing Z
is that their whole object is to dispen