ABSTRACT
The well-known work of Eduard Suess is a standing protest that such geological chances are now in progress; for, in speaking of how the land and ocean have exchanged places in the past, Zittel represents him as teaching that their “cause of origin until now has yet been discovered.” The sea and land have practically shifted places over all the globe since Man and thousands of other living species left their fossils in the rocks. The slightest disturbance of the nice equilibrium of our elements would suffice to send the waters of the ocean careering over the land; and in the abundance of astronomical causes competent for such disturbance we cease to regard such an event as necessarily contrary to “natural law.” The latter problem lies across the boundary line in the domain of philosophy and theology, and to these systems of thought we may cheerfully leave the task of readjustment in view of the facts here presented.
