A Discourse, Delivered Upon the Opening of the New Hall of the New-York Lyceum of Natural History (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A Discourse, Delivered Upon the Opening of the New Hall of the New-York Lyceum of Natural HistoryIn instituting a comparison of the respective theo ries of the earth, we would be bound to reduce the speculations of geologists to the actual condition of the globe and whether we enlisted as disciples of Neptune or of Vulcan, of the Wernerian or of the Hut tonian school, while scrutinizing the services of the ingenious writers who have appeared on the subject, with all the lights of modern science, we should be brought to the conclusion of the extraordinary confor mity of facts, the most recent and abundant, to the cosmogony of the great Jewish lawgiver. In descant ing on another almost boundless topic, zoology, we should be struck with the wonderful sagacity and matchless acumen of Aristotle, the first classifier of this department of physical study. We should be taught the great excellence to which, as a branch of knowledge, it has attained in our own day, and in the exposition of zoological systems, we should be compelled to notice the progress of discovery and the consequent modifications of systematic reasoning.A discussion, not without practical instruction, would here very properly offer itself.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.