GENERAL CONTENTS OF VOLUME I. Page PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION INTRODUCTION TO THE PRESENT EDITION PART I. OF THE MODE OF THE FIRST FORMATIONS OF THE EARTH, ACCORDING TO THE MINERAL GEOLOGY. CHAPTER I. Page OF THE MATERIALS WHICH COMPOSE THE CRUST OF THE EARTH- THEIR DISTINCTIVE AND INDICATORY CHARACTERS —THEIR GE NERAL CLASSIFICATION: OF GEOLOGY — TWOFOLD — MINERAL — MOSAICAL — PROPOSED COMPARISON OF THESE 1 CHAPTER II. OF THE MINERAL GEOLOGY.—ITS DISTINCTION FROM MINERALOGY — ITS APPEAL TO THE PHILOSOPHIES OF BACON AND NEWTON .... 17 CHAPTER III. ITS FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE, CHAOTIC AND CHEMICAL — VARI OUSLY MODIFIED:—ESSENTIAL OPPOSITION OF THAT PRINCIPLE TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF NEWTON^ EXEMPLIFIED — 1st, WITH RE ¬ LATION TO THE MODE OF FIRST FORMATIONS 23 CHAPTER IV. EXEMPLIFIED, 2DLx, WITH RELATION TO THE CAUSE OF THE SPHE RICAL FIGURE OF THE EARTH 36
