Now if it could have happened in that manner, why might it not have been at the same time, and by the same means, with the other parts of the globe ?" This ingenious mode of deducing certain conclusions from possible premises is an improvement in syllogistic skill, and proves the good father superior even to Archimedes, for he can turn the world without anything to rest his lever upon.

It is only surpassed by the dexterity with which the sturdy old Jesuit in another place cuts the gordian knot--"Nothing," says he, "is more easy.

The inhabitants of both hemispheres are certainly the descendants of the same father.

The common father of mankind received an express order from Heaven to people the world, and accordingly it has been peopled.

To bring this about it was necessary to overcome all difficulties in the way, and they have also been overcome!" Pious logician! how does he put all the herd of laborious theorists to the blush, by explaining in five words what it has cost them volumes to prove they knew nothing about! From all the authorities here quoted, and a variety of others which I have consulted, but which are omitted through fear of fatiguing the unlearned reader, I can only draw the following conclusions, which luckily, however, are sufficient for my purpose.