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| | British scriptural geologists in the first half of the nineteenth century: part 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | The reason, Penn said, that Mineral Geology was in opposition to Newton was because these geologists did not carry their analysis and induction back as far as Newton had—to the investigation of the first formation (or creation, as Newton called it) of all matter in general in order to ascertain the most general cause. |
 | | Whether it were the first formed bird, or the first formed shrub on which that bird rested, or the first formed rock on which that shurb grew, each must have instantly exhibited sensible phenomena; the first, of ossification, the second, of lignification, and the third, of crystallisation. |
 | | He began by reaffirming the fundamental principle, consistent with Bacon and Newton, that the mode of the first formations in the three kingdoms of plants, animals and minerals was by intelligent immediate acts of the Creator, which were antecedent to the laws of nature, which He set in operation for the perpetuation of the creation. |
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