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Geology a failure

The sun is a metaphorical representation of Soul out- side the body, giving existence and intelligence to the universe. Love alone can impart the limit- less idea of infinite Mind. Geology has never explained the earth's formations; it cannot explain them. There is no Scriptural allusion to solar light until time has been already divided into evening and morning; and the allusion to fluids (Genesis i. 2) indicates a supposed for- mation of matter by the resolving of fluids into solids, analogous to the suppositional resolving of thoughts into material things.