The profoundest facts in the earth's history prove that the oceans have always been oceans..

Science, while it penetrates deeply the system of things about us, sees everywhere, in the dim limits of vision, the word mystery..

The coral zoophyte may be leveled by transported masses swept over by the waters; yet like the trodden sod, it sprouts again, and continues to grow a….

A map of the moon... should be in every geological lecture room; for no where can we have a more complete or more magnificent illustration of volcani….

Mount Shasta - a vision of immensity such as pertains to the vast universe rather than to our own planet..

Most agreeable are the memories of events and labours, connected with the cruise:- of companions in travel, ... of coral islands with their groves, a….

Geology is rapidly taking its place as an introduction to the higher history of man. If the author has sought to exalt a favorite science, it has bee….

Some writers, rejecting the idea which science had reached, that reefs of rocks could be due in any way to "animalcules," have talked of electrical f….

Are coral reefs growing from the depths of the oceans? ... [The] reply is a simple negative; and a single fact establishes its truth. The reef-formin….

For nine miles along a submerged ridge, the corals rise in lumpy hillocks that spread out 100 yards or more, resembling heaped scoops of rainbow sher….

There can be no real conflict between the two Books of the Great Author. Both are revelations made by Him to man,-the earlier telling of God-made har….

Mr Hall's hypothesis has its cause for subsidence, but none for the lifting of the thickened sunken crust into mountains. It is a theory for the orig….

The grand old Book of God still stands; and this old earth, the more its leaves are turned over and pondered, the more it will sustain and illustrate….