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sive organic creations, and that all except the last had 

 "been destroyed hy telluric convulsions. The last em- 

 braced man ; and the early record of this was to be 

 found in Genesis. He gathered evidence to prove that 

 this later creation did not reach back more than six 

 thousand years, and that the animals of this period 

 had not perceptibly changed since the creation. In 

 conversation, when biblical topics were under consid- 

 eration, he supported the Bible's account of creation, 

 and believed that Adam and Eve were the parents of 

 the human race; and that variations of color and pecu- 

 liarities generally have arisen from climatic and other 

 influences. 



He repeatedly states that species never change ; 

 and arraigned the monumental records of Egypt to 

 show that the giraffe, the leopard, the antelope, the 

 ibis, and the crocodile, faithfully depicted on stone 

 5600 years ago, were identical with those now inhabit- 

 ing that country. Why could he not see on the gates 

 of Thebes the pictures of negroes chained in gangs as 

 slaves, negroes as distinct in their features as they 

 are to-day, yet they were not five hundred years from 

 the creation ? If the Coptic artists can be trusted for 

 fidelity to nature, and the creation took place less than 

 five hundred years before their time, the lower ani- 

 mals had not changed to an appreciable extent, yet 

 striking varieties had occurred in the human race, 

 let the primitive pair be white, black, or copper 

 colored. 



When assailed by those who disbelieved in special 

 creations by materialists, Cuvier would quote thus 

 from Genesis : " Let the waters bring forth abun- 

 dantly the moving creature that hath life. Let the 

 earth bring forth the living creature," adding, " God 



