[Footnote 82: P.F. 17, 18. "The conclusion is therefore certain that the land at this particular spot must have sunk twenty feet, and again risen as much so as to bring the floor of the temple to its present position, &c. Similar proofs may be multiplied to any extent.... In fact the more we study geology the more we are impressed with the fact that the normal states of the earth is and always has been one of incessant changes." (M.S. 35--9.)] [Footnote 83: i.e., Lyell says: Present causes could give these effects, given the time. Laing says: Therefore, since they have given these effects, we must suppose the time.] [Footnote 84: P.F. 18] [Footnote 85: P.F. 74.] [Footnote 86: Ibid.] [Footnote 87: P.F. 20.] [Footnote 88: M.S. 34, 41.] [Footnote 89: P.F. 6.] [Footnote 90: P.F. 23.] [Footnote 91: M.S. 46.] [Footnote 92: P.F. 24.] [Footnote 93: P.F. 32.] [Footnote 94: P.F. 66.] [Footnote 95: "Thus giving to palæolithic man no greater antiquity than perhaps about 20,000 to 30,000 years, while, should he be restricted to the so-called post-glacial period, the antiquity need not go back further than from 10,000 to 15,000 years before the time of neolithic man." (57.)] [Footnote 96: P.F. 67.] [Footnote 97: M.S. 109.] [Footnote 98: Prestwich evinces the same recalcitrance according to the _Nineteenth Century_, December 4, 1894, p. 961, being one of the geologists of high standing "who have lately come to believe in some sudden and extensive submergence of continental dimensions in very recent times."] [Footnote 99: 74.] [Footnote 100: P.F. 84.] [Footnote 101: P.F. 69, 70.] [Footnote 102: P.F. 70.] [Footnote 103: H.O. 364.] [Footnote 104: H.O. 388.] XXI. "THE MAKING OF RELIGION."