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Though wanting the merit of exactness, those numbers, however, justify the claim of vast antiquity, and draw us to the conclusion that the time-scale of the world answers to the space-scale in magnitude. Ancient philosophy declares that man has no means of ascertaining the truth. Differences of belief arise among the early Christians An ineffectual attempt is made to remedy them by Councils.
Deduction that she has been modeled by mechanical causes. Confirmation of this by geological discoveries respecting aqueous rocks; corroboration by organic remains. The necessity of admitting enormously long periods of time. Displacement of the doctrine of Creation by that of Evolution Discoveries respecting the Antiquity of Man. The time-scale and space-scale of the world are infinite.
There is an unceasing metamorphosis, a sequence of events, without beginning or end. If, on physical principles, we account for minor meteorological incidents, mists and clouds, is it not permissible for us to appeal to the same principle in the origin of world-systems and universes, which are only clouds on a space-scale somewhat larger, mists on a time-scale somewhat less transient?
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