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PART II.

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OF THE MODE OF THE FIRST FORMATIONS OF THE EARTH, ACCORDING TO THE MOSAICAL GEOLOGY.

CHAPTER I.

OF THE MOSAICAL GEOLOGY:-ITS FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE, UNIVERSAL INTELLIGENT CREATION-ACCORDANCE OF ITS PRINCIPLES WITH THE PHILOSOPHIES OF BACON AND NEWTON, WITH RELATION TO THE MODE OF ALL FIRST FORMATIONS

CHAPTER II.

OF THE NATURE OF THE RECORD AND VOUCHER FOR THE FACTS OF FIRST-FORMATION, OR CREATION, CONTAINED IN THE FIRST CHAPTER OF THE FIRST BOOK OF MOSES, OR GENESIS

CHAPTER III.

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TRANSACTIONS OF THE FIRST DAY OF CREATION, ACCORDING TO THE
EXPRESS, AND THE VIRTUAL, DECLARATIONS OF THAT RECORD:-
THIS GLOBE CREATED AT ONCE, PREPARED FOR THE ENDS WHICH
IT WAS TO SERVE" INVISIBLE," FROM THE UNIVERSAL ENVE-
LOPMENT OF THE SUPERINCUMBENT OCEAN, AND FROM THE NON-
EXISTENCE OF LIGHT" UNFURNISHED," BECAUSE WITHOUT PRO-
DUCTIONS:-THE FIRST ILLUMINATION OF THE SOLAR ORB, IN
INFERIOR CONJUNCTION WITH THE LUNAR, OR FIRST NOVILU-
NIUM.-COMMENCEMENT OF THE EARTH'S DIURNAL REVOLUTIONS,
OR OF TIME-NO MENTION OR IMPLICATION OF A CHAOS, OR OF
ANY EDUCTION FROM A CHAOS, IN THE LANGUAGE OF MOSES-A
NOTION ESSENTIALLY IRRECONCILABLE WITH HIS HISTORY-OF
POSTERIOR HEATHEN ORIGIN-ARISING ENTIRELY OUT OF AN
OBLIVION AND IGNORANCE OF CREATIVE POWER AND OPERATION.. 165

CHAPTER IV.

TRANSACTIONS OF THE SECOND DAY:- CREATION OF THE AERIAL ATMOSPHERE-ASCENT OF THE AQUEOUS VAPOUR IN CLOUDS

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TRANSACTIONS OF THE THIRD DAY:-FIRST CHANGE OR REVOLUTION IN THE GLOBE'S SURFACE-RENT AND DEPRESSION OF THE ABYSSES TO FORM A SEA-BED-DEFLUX OF THE UNIVERSAL SUPERINCUMBENT OCEAN INTO THOSE RECEPTACLES-CONSEQUENT EXPOSURE OF A TERRESTRIAL SURFACE-ITS INVESTITURE WITH VEGETATION

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CHAPTER VI.

TRANSACTIONS OF THE FOURTH DAY: THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE MOON RELATIVELY TO THE EARTH, ACCORDING TO THE LAWS ORDAINED FOR ITS MOVEMENT AND REVOLUTION-MANIFESTATION OF THE SYSTEM APPOINTED FOR THE SIDEREAL INDICATION AND NOTIFICATION OF TIMES

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CHAPTER VII.

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TRANSACTIONS OF THE FIFTH DAY: CREATION OF THE FIRST ANIMALS AQUATILE AND VOLATILE

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CHAPTER VIII.

TRANSACTIONS OF THE SIXTH DAY:-CREATION OF QUADRUPEDSAND OF MAN....

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CHAPTER IX.

TRANSACTIONS OF THE SEVENTH DAY: CONSECRATION OF THE SABBATH - COINCIDENT CESSATION OF CREATIVE, AND COMMENCEMENT OF UNIVERSAL PHYSICAL OPERATION INSTITUTION OF HEBDOMADAL DIVISIONS OF TIME, OR WEEKS, IN PERPETUAL MEMORIAL OF THAT COINCIDENCE:-COINCIDENT INCHOATIONS OF THE MEASURES OF DAYS, WEEKS, MONTHS, AND YEARS, SUPPLYING A PERFECT FUNDAMENTAL EPOCHA FOR CHRONOLOGY. (See Note [II.] p. 307.)

CHAPTER X.

GENERAL CONCLUSION FROM THE TWO PRECEDING PARTS

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PART I.

OF THE MODE OF THE FIRST FORMATIONS OF THE EARTHĮ, ACCORDING TO THE MINERAL GEOLOGY,

A

COMPARATIVE ESTIMATE

OF THE

MINERAL AND MOSAICAL

GEOLOGIES.

CHAPTER I.

THE characters which unfold themselves to our view in examining the substances of which this Globe consists, point out to us some period, or periods, when the order of its structure sustained violent agitation and alteration. In every part of the earth, we encounter unequivocal evidences of disruption, dislocation, and subversion, of its hardest and most solid materials; and we discover remains, equally unequivocal, of organic matter, both animal and vegetable, involved and deeply imbedded in other of its materials, which are soft, or which must have been so at the time when those foreign substances were imbedded within them. Monuments so wonderful, and at the same time universal, naturally stimulated the curiosity of man

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