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little likelihood that this is correlate with physical 

 force. 



" A few words upon the first chapter of Genesis 

 and the Mosaic cosmogony, and I am done," says Prof. 

 Le Conte, and so are we : 



"It might be expected by many that, after speaking of 

 schemes of reconciliation, I should give mine also. My Chris- 

 tian friends, these schemes of reconciliation become daily more 

 and more distasteful to me. I have used them in times past ; 

 but now the deliberate construction of such schemes seems to 

 me almost like trifling with the words of Scripture and the 

 teachings of Nature. They seem to me almost irreverent, and 

 quite foreign to the true, humble, liberal spirit of Christianity; 

 they are so evidently artificial, so evidently mere ingenious 

 human devices. It seems to me that if we will only regard 

 the two books in the philosophical spirit which I have endeav- 

 ored to describe, and then simply wait and possess our souls 

 in patience, the questions in dispute will soon adjust them- 

 selves as other similar questions have already done." 



