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cmdeness cannot be concealed by all the witchery of 

 Milton's immortal verse : 



'The Earth obey'd, and straight, 

 Op'ning her fertile womb, teem'd at a birth 

 Innumerous living creatures, perfect forms, 

 Limb'd and full grown. Out of the ground up rose 

 As from his lair, the wild beast, where he wons 

 In forest wild, in thicket, brake, or den ; 

 Among the trees they rose, they walk'd ; 

 The cattle in the fields and meadows green : 

 Those rare and solitary, these in flocks 

 Pasturing at once, and in broad herds upsprung. 

 The grassy clods now calv'd ; now half appeared 

 The tawny lion, pawing to get free 

 His hinder parts, then springs, as broke from bonds, 

 And rampant shakes his brinded mane 9 . 5 



Can anyone doubt for a moment which is the 

 grander view of ' Creation ' that embodied in 

 Darwin's prose, or the one so strikingly pictured in 

 Milton's poetry ? 



We see then that the two ideas of the method of 

 creation, dimly perceived by early man, have at last 

 found clear and definite expression from these two 

 authors Milton and Darwin. It is a singular coinci- 

 dence that these two great exponents of the rival 

 hypotheses were both students in the same University 

 of Cambridge and indeed resided in the same foun- 

 dation and that not one of the largest of that 

 University namely Christ's College, 



