the Vaporous Deep--Production | from a nebulous mass--Hypothesis
of Light. | of original incandescence.
|
_Second Day._--Earth covered by |Primitive Universal Ocean, and
the Waters--Formation of the | establishment of Atmospheric
Atmosphere. | equilibrium.
|
_Third Day._--Emergence of Dry |Elevation of the land which
Land--Introduction of | furnished the materials of the
Vegetation. | oldest rocks--Eozoic Period of
| Geology?
|
_Fourth Day._--Completion of the |Metamorphism of Eozoic rocks and
arrangements of the Solar System.| disturbances preceding the
| Cambrian epoch--Present
| arrangement of Seasons--Dominion
| of "Existing Causes" begins.
|
_Fifth Day._--Invertebrates and |Palaeozoic Period--Reign of
Fishes, and afterward great | Invertebrates and Fishes.
Reptiles and Birds created. |Mesozoic Period--Reign of
| Reptiles.
|
_Sixth Day._--Introduction of |Tertiary Period--Reign of Mammals.
Mammals--Creation of Man and |Post-Tertiary--Existing Mammals
Edenic Group of Animals. | and Man.
|
_Seventh Day._--Cessation of Work |Period of Human History.
of Creation--Fall and Redemption |
of Man. |
|
_Eighth Day._--New Heavens and |
Earth to succeed the Human Epoch |
--"The Rest (Sabbath) that |
remains to the People of God." |
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_Note._--The above table is identical with that published in "Archaia"
in 1860, and which the author sees no reason now to change.

5. In both records the ocean gives birth to the first dry land, and it
is the sea that is first inhabited, yet both lead at least to the
suspicion that a state of igneous fluidity preceded the primitive
universal ocean. In Scripture the original prevalence of the ocean is
distinctly stated, and all geologist