ITS STRUCTURE, BULK, AND ASPECT. lOo 



as the development hypothesis would require, a fish low in 

 its organization, it seems to have ranged on the level of the 

 highest ichthyic-reptilian families ever called into existence. 

 Had an intelligent being, ignorant of what was going on upon 

 earth during the week of creation, visited Eden on the morn- 

 ing of the sixth day, he would have found in it many of the 

 inferior animals, but no trace of man. Had he returned 

 again in the evening, he would have seen, installed in the 

 office of keepers of the garden, and ruling with no tyrant 

 sway as the humble monarchs of its brute inhabitants, two 

 mature human creatures, perfect in their organization, and 

 arrived at the full stature of their race. The entire evidence 

 regarding them, in the absence of all such information as that 

 imparted to Adam by Milton's angel, would amount simply 

 to this, that in the morning man was not, and that in the 

 evening he was. There of course could not exist, in the cir- 

 cumstances, a single appearance to sanction the belief that 

 the two human creatures whom he saw walking together 

 among the trees at sunset had been " developed from infu- 

 sorial points," not created mature. The evidence would, on 

 the contrary, lie all the other way. And in no degree does 

 the geologic testimony respecting the earliest ganoids differ 

 from what, in the supposed case, would be the testimony of 

 Eden regarding the earliest men. Up to a certain point in 

 the geolr-sjic scale we find that these ganoids are not ; and 

 when they at length make their appearance upon the stage, 

 they enter large in their stature and high in their organ iza 

 tion. 



