Excerpt from The Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as Displayed in the Animal Creation: Shewing the Remarkable Agreement Between This Department of Nature and Revelation; In a Series of Letters That branch of natural theology which shews forth the wisdom of God in the animate creation, has of late years been placed in a position highly injurious to the cause of revealed religion, which this science purposes to support; and one, therefore, from which it behoves the friends of that cause to exert themselves to rescue it. Whether the facts which are supposed to warrant the taking up of the position in question are indisputably proved, or whether, granting that they are so, they bear out the conclusions derived from them, are questions which deserve serious consideration. The views to which I allude are principally to be found in the department of knowledge called Geology, - a science which, since it owes the greater part of its general propositions to comparative anatomy and conchology, might more properly be called Zoogeology. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.