This Work announces and illustrates a grand Physical Law, which,
though hitherto unrecognised, is proved to be of universal
application in the organic world--the Law of Prochronism in Creation.
On this principle the Author shows that the conclusions of geologists
as to the great antiquity of the earth are not _inevitable_, that
there is another solution of the facts at least _possible_.
“We have no hesitation in pronouncing this book to be the most
important and best-written that has yet appeared on the very
interesting question with which it deals. We believe the logic of
the book to be unanswerable, its postulates true, its laws fairly
deduced.”--_Nat. Hist. Review, Jan. 1858._
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