The Scientific Writings of James Smithson
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The diluvian species must have been the same as the present. The mul- tifarious wonders of the ark had for sole object their pres- ervation ; while of the fossil kinds, not perhaps one, or quadruped, or bird, or fish, or shell, or insect, or plant, is now alive.
" Amazing proofs of inundations at high levels " are appealed to. Had they being, of the deluge they could at most speak but to their existence ; on its influence in the 116 WRITINGS OF JAMES SMITHSON.
contested cases, they would be sil...ent ; but it appears that this stupendous prodigy, " Like the baseless fabric of a vision, Left not a wreck behind. " Of the occurrence of marine depositions at great altitudes, the elevation of the stratum by volcanic efforts, furnishes a far more easy solution than the elevation of the sea, as it refers the phenomenon to a natural cause, and does not require the immediate interposition of the divine hand ; and the ruptured state and erect position of the strata on all these occasions, testify strongly in favour of the simpler supposition.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The diluvian species must have been the same as the present. The mul- tifarious wonders of the ark had for sole object their pres- ervation ; while of the fossil kinds, not perhaps one, or quadruped, or bird, or fish, or shell, or insect, or plant, is now alive.
" Amazing proofs of inundations at high levels " are appealed to. Had they being, of the deluge they could at most speak but to their existence ; on its influence in the 116 WRITINGS OF JAMES SMITHSON.
contested cases, they would be sil...ent ; but it appears that this stupendous prodigy, " Like the baseless fabric of a vision, Left not a wreck behind. " Of the occurrence of marine depositions at great altitudes, the elevation of the stratum by volcanic efforts, furnishes a far more easy solution than the elevation of the sea, as it refers the phenomenon to a natural cause, and does not require the immediate interposition of the divine hand ; and the ruptured state and erect position of the strata on all these occasions, testify strongly in favour of the simpler supposition.
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