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DARWIN CONTINUED.

TO THE EDITOR OF BASSETTS' DAILY CHRONICLE.

SIR.—Admitting that there was a time at a very remote period of a million years, or a thousand million years when, there was nothing on the earth but fishes, according to this great man, and those of the lowest order. This will please him and his friends the Geologists—great scholars they are.—Where, then, was the earth got? and where were the fishes got?

As this clever author was able to tell the reasoning of the dog on his lawn, he ought to be able to tell how this big mass of earth and rock and sand and gravel came. If he cannot, with all the glare of natural science that they boast of now, Mosses was an old fool in those uneducated ages to attempt doing it; and in some short time after we had men as wise as we have at present, and their advice stands good to-day as well as say we can get from as wise men as Mr. Darwin. How does all this occur? They never disputed it. Well, again, admitting that earth was millions of years old, was not time before it?

We all know that there is no comparison between time and eternity. We know that the human mind has not the power of comprehending eternity, for, as in all the words of God, He has kept that a secret from nuts. Then, as time was before it, and time and sternity bear no analogy do you think I will take the story of meteoric stones or the throwing up of land, or the upheaving of land as a contradiction of the Mossie history, and while the lard is more likely to be created in man's than in fish's day—I am, yours truly,

CHARLES O'SHAUGHNESSY.

Kilfinane, January 19, 1876.