Things Not Generally Known, Familiarly Explained

"Thus, then, the new and brilliant science of geology attests that *man was the last of created beings in this planet*. If her *data* be consistent and true, and worthy of scientific consideration, she affords conclusive evidence that, as we are told in Scripture, he cannot have occupied the earth longer than *six thousand years*" (quoting S. Warren 1854, who cites Hitchcock 1851).
"The enlightened and pious philosophy of the present day recognises as a fact. on the authority of revelation, that the human species came upon this planet solely in virtue of a direct act of creation by the Almighty" (misleadingly citing Coleridge's Aids to Reflection, though actually Warren again).