Uniformity of Results—Prochronism of Organic Nature—Phenomena inadequate to settle Chronology—Historic Testimony alone oracular—Familiar Illustration—Objections met—Analogy between an Organism and a World—Illustration from a Tree—Analogy between the Life of a Species and that of an Individual—History Divinely Projected—Grand Plan of Nature—Diachronic Existence not necessary—Deceptive Phenomena inseparable from Created Organisms—Illustrations abundant—Hypothesis of the Life-history of the Globe—Supposition of 1857 being the Era of Creation—What its State?—Minuteness and Verity of Proofs of Life present no Difficulty—Coprolites—Fæcal Residua in newly-created Animals—Cyclical not Organic Condition the Test of Prochronism—Illustrations from the inorganic World—Rivers—Ocean Currents—Celestial Bodies—Velocity of Light—Records of Entities actually passed—"No Tree has Leaves"—Plates of Testudinaria—Leaf-scars of Palm—Column of Nerita—Spines of Murex—Madreporic Plate of Cribella—Hilum of Seed—Navel of Mammal—Argument of "Great and Small"—Old Hypothesis of Lusus Naturæ—Demonstration of a Law—Effect of this Principle on the Study of Geology—Summing up [335]-372
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
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Geological Section of Yorkshire [35]
Calymene Blumenbachii [41]
Cephalaspis [44]
Labyrinthodon [57]
Snake-necked Marine Lizards [59]
Megalosaurus Bucklandi [61]
Bat-lizards [62]
Hylæosaurus armatus [63]
Mammoth [74]
Moho [84]
Germination of Scarlet-runner [114]
Diagram of Bean [116]
" Fern [117]
" Hawkmoth [119]
" Polype [120]
" Cow [121]
Leaf-scars of Tree-fern [132]
Roots of Iriartea [139]
Traveller's Tree [148]
Corm of Gladiolus [153]
Section of Lily-bulb [157]
Testudinaria [159]
Encephalartos [162]
Twig of Tulip-tree [167]
Young Plant of Loranthus [171]
Silk-cotton Tree [175]
Section of Exogenous Tree [179]
Muricated Madrepore [185]
Organ-pipe [187]
Comatula and Young [194]
Serpula [200]
Goliath Beetle and Pupa case [206]
Larva of Case-fly [209]
Melicerta [210]
Lepas [218]
Botryllus [224]
Clavagella [226]
Dione Veneris [228]
Murex tenuispina [233]
Scale of Gilt-head [242]
Plates of Tortoise [251]
Growth of a Feather [254]
Horns of Stag [258]
Skull of Babiroussa [262]
Skull of Hippopotamus [265]
Skull of Elephant [267]
Growth of Hair [278]
Section of Human Tooth [282]
Garden Tulip [298]
Germination of Earth-pea [300]
Seed of Mangrove [303]
Lace-fly and Eggs [312]
Brachionus with Eggs [322]
Pregnant Asplanchna [323]
Hen's Egg [329]
Gyroceras [371]