Natural Table of the Correspondences Existing Between God, Man, and the Universe

tion that Nature undergoes as it moves away from the epoch of its formation, since through the enormous bones and petrified plants that remain to us from those ancient times, it is constant that the first productions must have been much stronger, more vigorous than those of our days, and that even through the exhaustion of Nature, several species, whether aquatic or terrestrial, have been lost.

If it is evident that in all genres, secondary Principles are inferior to primitive Principles, why then assimilate them? Why attempt to equate Agents so disproportionate; and are those who pronounce judgment based on similar calculations not exposed to false results?

The slowness of the daily reproductions of Nature must therefore count for nothing against the activity of the Agents that directed the origin of things and all primordial productions.

When Observers wish to consider the origin of these calcareous substances that they perceive on the entire surface of the earth, they present two difficulties; one relative to their enormous multitude, and the other to the times that were necessary to consolidate them and convert them into stones.

But