crocNliks, nnd otncr sea monsters (Delitzscl1); as yet sub .fudia. Prindpal Dawson In, gigantic nquniic nn,l amphibious reptiles clinos to chum for the gigitntic fornminifcr, (.Kalisch, llincdonnld). And every living eozoon 1 .madense, of the Laurcntian rocks, 11reature (ncphesh cJur11yaA) whi11h moveth. the honour of being ono of the !hst nquittic Literally, tho moving, from ram as, to move crcnturcs tl1Rt swcmne<l in terrestrial waters, or creep. This is tl1e 8ccond class of she- though Professor Huxley believes thnt tho 1·etzim.. The tenn reine.s is spccia lly descrip- earliest lifo is not represented by the oldest ti rn of creeping animnls (eh. ix. 2), either kn°'m fossils(' Critiques and Addresses,' ix. 011 land (eh. Yii. 14) or in water (I's. hix. 35), 1Si3) ; but, whether then or at some point though here it clMrly signifies aquatic tribes. of time anterior introduced, geology can Which thewatere brought forth abundantly trace it upwards through the Pnlroozoic and after their kind. The generic terms Rrc Mezozoic ems with the result thnt is here so thus se<.>n to include mnny distinct orde1'S exactly define,!. Throughout the long ages nnd species, created each nfter its kind. And that !ill the interval between the Azoic every winged fowl after his kind. Why period of our enrth's history ancl that which fowls aud fish were created on tbe same day witnessed the appearance of the higher is not to be explained by nny supposed simi- animals she is nble to detect an unbroken larity between the air autl the water (Luther, succession of o'lu.-.tic life, rising gradually Lyra, Cahin, &c.), or any fancied resemblance from lower to higher forms-from tho trilo- between the bodily organisms of birds and bites and molluscs of the Cambrian and fishes, but by the circumstance that the fir- Silurian systems, up through the ganoid mament and the waters were separated on fishes of the Devonian itnd the amphibians the second day, to which it was designed that of the Carboniferous to the saurian reptiles this day should have a correspondence. And of the Pcrmian periods. .A.t this point certain God saw that it was good. As in every ornithic tracks in the snperincumbent Triassic other instance, the productions of this day strata reveal the introduction upon the scene approve themselves to the Divine Creator's of winged creatures, and with this accession judgment; but on this <lay he marks his to its strength a.nd volume the stream of Jifo complacency by a step which he takes for the /lows on till the higl1er animals appeBr. first time, yiz., that of pronotmciug a bene- Thus geology confirms the Scripture 1·ccord diction on the ne"·ly-created tribes. Nothing by attesting (I) the priority of marine animo.l;r could more evince the importance '1'hich, in and birds to land animals ; (2) the existence the Creator's judgmcnt, attached to this of a p<.>1-iod when the great sea monsters, with <lcy's work. the smaller aquatic tribes aml winged fowfa Yer. 22. -And God blessed them. To Lless of the air, wero the sole living creatures ,,n is to wish well to (eh. xxvii 4; Num. vi the globe; and (3) that, precisely as Eloliim 23). In the case of God blessing inanimate designed life has continued in unbroken things, it signifies to make them to prosper succession since the time of its first intro- nud Le auunda:nt (Exod. .xxiii 25; Job i. duction. It may also be noted that the 10; Ps. lxv. 11). The nature of the blessin~ Palreoutological history of the earth's crust pronounced upon the animal creation hall suggests a number of considerations that reference to their propagation and increase. enable us to form a conception of the fifth Ee fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters day's work, which, though not contrnvenecl in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the by the :Mosaic narrative, is yet by it not earth. The paronomastic combination, be explicitly disclosecl. For exampl-\, whereas j ruitful and inult-iply, became a regular for- it might seem to be tho teachinl;( of the mula of Llessing (c[ eh. x:riv. 60; xxxY. inspired writer that the ta-nniniin, the 11 ; xJviii 4 ; Ps. cxxviii. 3, 4). The Divine remts, and the birds were created simul- benediction was not simply a wish ; but, adds taneously, and so were synchronous in their l:alvin, "by the bare intimation of his pur- appe~rance, the testimony of the rocks rnther poSc he effects what men seek by entreaty." points to a series of creative nets in which Nor was it meaningless that the words of successive species of Jiving creatures were benediction were addressed to the creatures ; summoned into being, as the necessnry co~- it was designed to teach that the "force of <litions of existence _were prepared for their the Divine word was not meant to be tran- reception, and indeed with emphasis asse1-ts sieJJt but, being infused into their natures, that the order of creation was not, as in ver. to ~ke root and constantly bear fruit " 21, first the great sea monsters, and then tl1e (Cah-in). creepers, and then the birds ; but fast the Yer. 23. -And the evening and the morn- smaller aquatic tribes, and then the mon- ing were the filth day. If of the previous sters of the deep1 and finally the wingecl creative d.1ys geological science has only creatLtres of the 1ur, 'l'his, however, is not doubtful traces, of this it be~rs i1Tefragable to con trndict, but to clucida to, the WOJ d c,f witness. When the first animal life was God. introduced upon ou1· globe may be said to be en. 1. 20-n.J 'l'ttF: llOOK OF GRNRBts. 27
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