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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 Excerpt: ...him. Happily we have thus been permitted to bring our labours to a point which enables us to draw a conclusion we have long desired to effect. Having shown the truth of the Mosaic narrative in all that pertains to matter, with respect to which, X 3 tangible proofs, and evidences appreciable by the senses, deducible from the researches of philosophy, can be made available, we consider ourselves entitled to insist--That the inspired historian shall be credited, upon his mere assertion, with regard to the remaining and most important term of the whole passage, which admits of no tangible or philosophic proof whatever, namely, that they were all created and made by God; for he has said, that In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. SECTION VIII. COMPLETION OF THE ATMOSPHERE; SEPARATION OF THE SEA FROM THE Land; AND THEIR IMMEDIATE COMBINED RESULTS. CHAPTER XXXII. First use made, by the Creator, of the newly formed Atmosphere. Separation of the Sea from the Land. This separation effected by Vaporization. Numerous preparatory explanations and advertencies necessary for the effectual prosecution of our argument, and for the establishing of this fact. Different substances vaporized at diverse temperatures: scientific evidences of this. The effects of the application of heat to a solution of salt and water. Results which occur when different descriptions of salts, held simultaneously in solution, arc allowed to crystallize; and, also, when these are associated with earthy materials. Concluding proofs on these two points. In the preceding chapter we endeavoured to exhibit the accordance which exists between the inspired narrative, and the announcements of experimental philosophy, on points connected with the introduction of the principle of ...

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