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In the series, I., Light: IL, Land and Seas: 4 
Vegetation: IV., Stars (I think it is Miller who suggests 
these now to be viszb/e for the first time to the Seer, who 
wrote down his vision, through the condensation of the mois- 
ture, ‘which was above the firmament,’ upon the surface of 
the cooling earth): V., Flying Creatures, Water Monsters, 
Fish, Winged Fowl: VL., Cattle, Creeping Things, Beasts, 
Man. 
However, in this long series, ove or even two orders - 
are judged to be displaced from their position in the 
Geological Record (although there is no statement in 
the text confining the Creeping things to the sixth day, or 
the Fowl to the fifth day, &c.), it must remain to all time 
a marvel to the sober Geologist that ‘ unscientific Man,’ 
unassisted by Divine inspiration, could so accurately have 
read the secrets of the Earth’s bowels 
Why does he place Man last? The very last, in the 
exact order assigned to him by the greatest Geologists of 
England and Germany, by Frenchmen like Gaudry, (who 
was an Evolutionist, like Owen, upon more reverential 
principles than Darwin), who when graphically describing 
the scene, where the great extinct Mammals were numer- 
ous, says “in the concert of their voices the voice of Man 
alone was wanting.” By Owen, who says of the Horse, 
(the last of the Mammalia to appear before man) “J deleve 
the horse to have been predestined and prepared for man,” 
by Schmidt, who observes man could not “7zse above his 
origin till the Glacial period (as may be assumed) gave 
way to ncalculably long ages of assured order in the later 
Geological period in the central and northern latitudes.” 
I take “‘rise above his origin” to mean complete his 
transition from Ape to Man. 
I quite agree with Professor Drummond concerning 
the harm the guerilla band of skirmishers, on behalf of 
