Notice of some remarks by the late Mr. Hugh Miller, author of The testimony of the rocks, The old red sandstone, &c. &c.
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- 1857
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Notice of some remarks by the late Mr. Hugh Miller, author of The testimony of the rocks, The old red sandstone, &c. &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![discovery must be immediately proved to be harmonious with certain other portions of our knowledge. A due regard to the sacredness of religious faith and to the natural sensitiveness of the popular mind will secure respectful caution; but it is most consistent with the acknowledged imperfection of human facul- ties, and at the same time most worthy of the true dignity of science, to assume that ultimately all truths will be found to agree; and meantime, strictly adhering to the canons of evi- dence, to explore courageously the great field open to us. We ought especially to avoid generalizations which have no sound philosophical principle, or which are framed or applied merely from a desire to appease over-zealous minds ignorant of the facts already ascertained. This obligation is stronger in proportion to the degree of confidence given to the teacher in any case, and also in proportion to the limitation of access to other sources of information. THE TESTIMONY OP THE ROOKS, OR GEOLOGY IN ITS BEARINGS ON THE TWO THEOLOGIES, NATURAL AND REVEALED, By Hugh Miller. Author of The Old Red Sandstone, Footprints of the Creator, &c. &c. Boston : Gould & Lincoln. 1857. [Note mpages iTl, 172, 173, 174, 175.] It will be seen that there is no attempt made in this lecture to represent the great Palaeozoic division as characterized throughout its entire extent by a luxuriant flora. It is, on the contrary, expressly stated here, that the plants of its earlier and terminal formations (i. e. those of the Silurian, Old Red, and Permian Systems) were feto and small, and that it was only during the protracted eons of the carboniferous period that they received their amazing development, unequalled in any pre- vious or succeeding time Being thus express in my limitation. I think I have just cause of complaint against any one who](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22268960_0010.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
