==================================================================== | BIBLICAL AEONS. | PERIODS DEDUCED FROM SCIENTIFIC | CONSIDERATIONS. -------------------------------------------------------------------- The Beginning. |Creation of Matter. | _First Day._--Earth mantled by |Condensation of Planetary Bodies the Vaporous Deep--Production | from a nebulous mass--Hypothesis of Light. | of original incandescence. | _Second Day._--Earth covered by |Primitive Universal Ocean, and the Waters--Formation of the | establishment of Atmospheric Atmosphere. | equilibrium. | _Third Day._--Emergence of Dry |Elevation of the land which Land--Introduction of | furnished the materials of the Vegetation. | oldest rocks--Eozoic Period of | Geology? | _Fourth Day._--Completion of the |Metamorphism of Eozoic rocks and arrangements of the Solar System.| disturbances preceding the | Cambrian epoch--Present | arrangement of Seasons--Dominion | of "Existing Causes" begins. | _Fifth Day._--Invertebrates and |Palaeozoic Period--Reign of Fishes, and afterward great | Invertebrates and Fishes. Reptiles and Birds created. |Mesozoic Period--Reign of | Reptiles. | _Sixth Day._--Introduction of |Tertiary Period--Reign of Mammals. Mammals--Creation of Man and |Post-Tertiary--Existing Mammals Edenic Group of Animals. | and Man. | _Seventh Day._--Cessation of Work |Period of Human History. of Creation--Fall and Redemption | of Man. | | _Eighth Day._--New Heavens and | Earth to succeed the Human Epoch | --"The Rest (Sabbath) that | remains to the People of God." | [149] | ====================================================================== _Note._--The above table is identical with that published in "Archaia" in 1860, and which the author sees no reason now to change.