Indicating Future Cosmological Changes down to the "All Nature is but Art unknown to thee; All Chance, Direction which thou canst not see; All Discord, Harmony not understood; All partial Evil, universal Good."---Essay on Man. PHILADELPHIA: Printed for the Author by H. Orr, No. 100 Chestnut Street. ......... 1854 Entered acɔording to the Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by H. ORk, in the Clerk's office of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. ARGUMEN T. THE Creation was the result of natural law-there was a physical and moral necessity for the Deluge; both of which phenomena must have taken place about the time and in the way and manner described by Moses. Neither the Creation nor the Deluge was "a miracle," or a deviation from the known laws of Nature, nor was either of them an event contrary to the established constitution and course of things. Each happened in its proper time and place. This doctrine does not derogate from the attributes of the Creator; on the contrary, it exalts our ideas of His omnipotence and beneficence. Neither does it lead to Materialism, Fatalism, or Atheism, on the one hand, nor to Spiritualism," Scepticism, or Pantheism on the other. 66 The habitable portion of the Antediluvian world is yet under water. A great change is about to take place on this Earth. The type of animal life is progressing; a new race of animals, as much superior to man as man is to a monkey, will hereafter appear; else we have reached the culminating point and retrogression or destruction must follow. Important Sidereal changes are approaching. The Sun is to decrease in size, until it will appear no larger than a star of the first magnitude! : The Earth was formerly surrounded by a luminous ring, like Saturn what formed and what became of that ring.-A Deluge will occur upon that planet, similar to the one which overwhelmed the Earth in the days of the patriarch Noah. "There was light" before the Sun, Moon, or Stars were visible on Earth. The whole number of persons destroyed by the flood did not exceed those who die in the city of New York in a single year. The account of the |