THE CREATION.

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Introduction

CONTENTS.

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SECTION I.

THE ANIMAL EXISTENCES OF THE PERIOD OF NON-DIURNAL

ROTATION.

CHAPTER I.

Subject of argument in the present Section. Early conception of a Prin-

ciple of Limitation involved in the Mosaic Record. Definition of the

Living Principle. Faint Line of Separation between Vegetable and

Animal Vitality. Difference determined; and also that between Ver-

tebrate and Invertebrate Animals. Mollusca, Articulata, and Radiata.

Apulmonic Tribes of Animals defined generally. Nature and Habits of

the Extinct Races of Interior Animals. Evidence of the Extinction of

their Races, and of the successive Creation of others. The Design and

Object of the Temporary Existence of the Inferior Apulmonic Animals,

with a view to resume, and dwell, in the sequel, upon both of these points

CHAPTER II.

Review of the progress made in the previous Chapter. Followed up by

exhibiting the description of Fossil Animal Remains which have been

discovered in the older formations. The whole compared with the

Animal Remains which, by dependence on Scripture, might have been

expected to have been disembedded from the older strata, and found sub-

stantially, and with few exceptions, to correspond. Some explana-

tions respecting the points of disagreement.

CHAPTER III.

Adaptation of the Apulmonic Invertebrate Animals to the state of the Crea-

tion previous to the Earth's rotation around its axis. Origin of Calca-

reous Rocks, and the influential part which the primitive Animal

Organisms performed in producing them. Increase of these rocks in

an ascending series. Summary of the subjects treated of in this

Section

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