Gerald Molloy

PREFACE.

PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION.

CONTENTS.

PART I.

PART II.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER.

CHAPTER I. THEORY OF GEOLOGISTS.

CHAPTER II. THEORY OF DENUDATION ILLUSTRATED BY FACTS.

CHAPTER III. THEORY OF DENUDATION FURTHER ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHAPTER IV. THEORY OF DENUDATION CONCLUDED.

CHAPTER V.

CHAPTER VI. STRATIFIED ROCKS OF MECHANICAL ORIGIN FURTHER ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHAPTER VII. STRATIFIED ROCKS OF CHEMICAL ORIGIN.

CHAPTER VIII. STRATIFIED ROCKS OF ORGANIC ORIGIN ILLUSTRATIONS FROM ANIMAL LIFE.

CHAPTER IX. STRATIFIED ROCKS OF ORGANIC ORIGIN ILLUSTRATIONS FROM VEGETABLE LIFE.

CHAPTER X. FOSSIL REMAINS THE MUSEUM.

CHAPTER XI. FOSSIL REMAINS THE EXPLORATION.

CHAPTER XII. GEOLOGICAL CHRONOLOGY PRINCIPLES OF THE SYSTEM EXPLAINED AND DEVELOPED.

CHAPTER XIII. GEOLOGICAL CHRONOLOGY REMARKS ON THE SUCCESSION OF ORGANIC LIFE.

CHAPTER XIV. SUBTERRANEAN HEAT ITS EXISTENCE DEMONSTRATED BY FACTS.

CHAPTER XV. SUBTERRANEAN HEAT ITS POWERS ILLUSTRATED BY VOLCANOS.

CHAPTER XVI. SUBTERRANEAN HEAT ITS POWERS ILLUSTRATED BY EARTHQUAKES.

CHAPTER XVII. SUBTERRANEAN HEAT ITS POWERS ILLUSTRATED BY UNDULATIONS OF THE EARTH'S CRUST.

CHAPTER XVIII. STATEMENT OF THE QUESTION AND EXPOSITION OF THE AUTHORS VIEW.

CHAPTER XIX. FIRST HYPOTHESIS; AN INTERVAL OF INDEFINITE

CHAPTER XX. SECOND HYPOTHESIS; THE DAYS OF CREATION LONG PERIODS OF TIME.

CHAPTER XXI. APPLICATION OF THE SECOND HYPOTHESIS TO THE MOSAIC HISTORY OF CREATION CONCLUSION.

APPENDIX. EXTRACTS FROM THE FATHERS AND THEOLOGIANS. REFERRED

APPENDIX TO THE AMERICAN EDITION. From Prof. J. D. Dana's

FOOTNOTES:

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GEOLOGY AND REVELATION.

Sicut Augustinus docet, in hujusmodi quÆstionibus duo sunt observanda. Primo quidem ut Veritas ScripturÆ inconcusse teneatur. Secundo, cum Scriptura Divina multipliciter exponi possit, quod nulli expositioni aliquis ita prÆcise inhÆreat, ut si certa ratione constiterit hoc esse falsum quod aliquis sensum ScripturÆ esse credebat, id nihilominus asserere prÆsumat; ne Scriptura ex hoc ab infidelibus derideatur, et ne eis via credendi prÆcludatur.

S. Thomas, De Opere SecundÆ Diei; Summa, Pars 1, QuÆst. 68, Art. 1.

As Augustine teacheth, there are two things to be observed in questions of this kind. First, that the truth of Scripture be inviolably maintained. Secondly, since Divine Scripture may be explained in many ways, that no one cling to any particular exposition with such pertinacity that, if what he supposed to be the teaching of Scripture should turn out to be plainly false, he would nevertheless presume to put it forward; lest thereby Sacred Scripture should be exposed to the derision of unbelievers, and the way of salvation should be closed to them.

Saint Thomas, On the Work of the Second Day.

Geology and Revelation:
OR THE
Ancient History of the Earth,
CONSIDERED IN THE LIGHT OF
GEOLOGICAL FACTS AND REVEALED RELIGION.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.
BY THE
Rev. GERALD MOLLOY, D. D.,
PROFESSOR OF THEOLOGY IN THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF ST. PATRICK, MAYNOOTH.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION
To the American edition; and a chapter on Cosmogony, [by permission]
from the Manual of Geology, by Prof. J. D. Dana.
NEW YORK:
G. P. PUTNAM & SONS,
1870.

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To the Very Reverend
CHARLES WILLIAM RUSSELL, D. D.
PRESIDENT OF SAINT PATRICK’S COLLEGE, MAYNOOTH,
This Volume is Inscribed,
WITH EVERY SENTIMENT OF AFFECTION AND RESPECT.