THE EUROPEAN AGE OF REASON—(Continued).
HISTORY OF THE EARTH.—HER SUCCESSIVE CHANGES IN THE COURSE OF TIME.
Oriental and Occidental Doctrines respecting the Earth in Time.—Gradual Weakening of the latter by astronomical Facts, and the Rise of Scientific Geology.
Impersonal Manner in which the Problem was eventually solved, chiefly through Facts connected with Heat.
Proofs of limitless Duration from inorganic Facts.—Igneous and Aqueous Rocks.
Proofs of the same from organic Facts.—Successive Creations and Extinctions of living Forms, and their contemporaneous Distribution.
Evidences of a slowly declining Temperature, and, therefore, of a long Time.—The Process of Events by Catastrophe and by Law.—Analogy of Individual and Race Development.—Both are determined by unchangeable Law.
Conclusion that the Plan of the Universe indicates a Multiplicity of Worlds in infinite Space, and a Succession of Worlds in infinite Time.
THE EUROPEAN AGE OF REASON—(Continued).