Produced by Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) THE RELIGION OF GEOLOGY AND ITS CONNECTED SCIENCES. [Illustration: SECTION OF THE EARTH'S CRUST.] THE RELIGION OF GEOLOGY AND ITS CONNECTED SCIENCES. BY EDWARD HITCHCOCK, D. D., LL. D., PRESIDENT OF AMHERST COLLEGE, AND PROFESSOR OF NATURAL THEOLOGY AND GEOLOGY. "Science has a foundation, and so has religion; let them unite their foundations, and the basis will be broader, and they will be two compartments of one great fabric reared to the glory of God. Let the one be the outer and the other the inner court. In the one, let all look, and admire, and adore; and in the other, let those who have faith kneel, and pray, and praise. Let the one be the sanctuary where human learning may present its richest incense as an offering to God; and the other the holiest of all, separated from it by a veil now rent in twain, and in which, on a blood sprinkled mercy seat, we pour out the love of a reconciled heart, and hear the oracles of the living God."--_M'Cosh._ EIGHTH THOUSAND. BOSTON: PHILLIPS, SAMPSON, AND COMPANY. 1854. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1851, by PHILLIPS, SAMPSON, & CO., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts. STEREOTYPED AT THE BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY. TO MY BELOVED WIFE.