The Vedic fathers of geology

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been recognised as historical documents, aye, as the most ancient documents in the history of the human mind, and as palzontological records of an evolution that begins to elicit wider and deeper sympathies than the nebular formation of the planet on which we dwell for a season, or the organic development of that chrysalis which we call man.” ( “India. What Can it teach us ?” pp: 253,254. Edition 1883). I may, therefore, take this opportunity to remind the Reader, without fear of contradiction, that the Vedas contain many things not yet known to anybody, as they form a mine of inexhaustible literary wealth, that has only partially been opened, and has still remained unexplored.

Now, another objection also might be raised to the effect that, the Vedas may perhaps contain elements of Cosmology ; yet, Cosmolooy and Geology are two very different things altogether, and the one has nothing to do with the other. But, to this, a better reply cannot be given than in the words of Professor Judd, as he says, “ The first who endeavoured to draw a clear line of demarcation between Cosmogony and Geology was Dr. James Hutton, who declared that Geology was in no way concerned ‘ with questions as to the origion of things.’ But his doctrine on this head was vehemently