“ Let us take a Survey of the principal Fabriek, viz. the Terraqueous
Globe itself; a most stupendous work in every particular of it, which
doth no less aggrandize its Maker than every curious complete work doth
its Workman. Let us cast our eyes here and there, let us ransack all the
Globe, let us with the greatest accuracy inspect every part thereof, search
out the inmost secrets of any of the creatures, let us examine them with
all our gauges, measure them with our nicest rules, pry into them with
our microscopes and most exquisite instruments, still we find them to
bear testimony to their infinite Workman."
DERHAM’s PHYS1CO-THEOLOGY, BOOK II. P. 38.
“ Could the body of the whole Earth - - be submitted to the Examination
of our Senses, were it not too big and disproportioned for our
Enquiries, too unwieldly for the Management of the Eye and Hand, there
is no question but it would appear to us as curious and well-contrived
a frame as that of an human body. We should see the same Concatenation
and Subserviency, the same Necessity and Usefulness, the same
Beauty and Harmony in all and every of its Parts, as what we discover
in the Body of every single Animal.” spectator, no. 543.
GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY
C O N S ID E R ED WITH R E F E R E N C E TO
NATURAL THEOLOGY
BY
THE REV. WILLIAM BUCKLAND, D.D.
CANON OF CHRIST CHURCH AND READER IN GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY
IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
VOL I I
LONDON
WIL L IAM P IC K E R IN G
1836