CONTAINED IN THIS VOLUME.
INTRODUCTION - 1
GEOLOGICAL POINT OF VIEW.
CHAPTER ONE. Exposition of the principal systems - 31
CHAPTER II. Geological reasons in support of these systems - 38
CHAPTER III. Reply to these objections - 43
CHAPTER IV. Inanity of these systems; they rest upon no foundation - 76
CHAPTER V. These systems are contradicted by the facts - 84
PHILOLOGICAL POINT OF VIEW.
CHAPTER ONE. Moses is a historian and not a poet - 101
CHAPTER III. Reply to the objections - 112
SCRIPTURAL POINT OF VIEW.
CHAPTER ONE. The question which occupies us is much more scriptural than geological - 135
CHAPTER III. The world was created in time, that is, on the first day of time - 152
CHAPTER IV. Ecclesiastical authors wrongly invoked in favor of these systems - 163
Jewish Authors - 222
CHAPTER V. Ecclesiastical writers who defended the literal interpretation of the days of Moses - 228
Doctors and Fathers - 233
Theologians - 277
Modern Commentators on Holy Scripture - 295
CAUSES OF THE STRUCTURE OF THE GLOBE.
CHAPTER ONE. The whole creation is an act of divine power - 309
CHAPTER II. The universal flood - 317
CHAPTER III. The flood of Ogyges or Deucalion - 330
CHAPTER IV. Earthquakes - 334
CHAPTER V. Volcanoes - 340
CHAPTER VI. Alluvia and Accretions - 342
CONCLUSION - 349
APPENDIX - 353