ABSTRACT
The “broad fact,” as stated by Zittel and Dana, that any kind of rocks whatever, i.e. containing any kinds of fossils, even the “youngest,” may rest on the Archaean, and may thus in position, as also in texture and appearance, resemble the very oldest deposits on the glob. And surely it is scarcely necessary in this enlightened age to point out how completely this vitiates any biological argument which has incorporated into its system the results of such illogical reasoning, or which in any way is dependent upon the conclusions of such a theory of geology. In view of the laws of evidence, which every intelligent person is supposed to understand now-a-days, surely some strange things passed for scientific proof during the nineteenth century.
