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I suppose, therefore, that he will admit that 

 it is equally proper to speak of the author of 

 Leviticus as the " Mosaic writer." Whether such 

 a phrase would be used by any one who had an 

 adequate conception of the assured results of 

 modern Biblical criticism is another matter ; 

 but, at any rate, it cannot be denied that 

 Leviticus has as much claim to Mosaic author- 

 ship as Genesis. Therefore, if one wants to 

 know the sense of a phrase used in Genesis, it 

 will be well to see what Leviticus has to say 

 on the matter. Hence, I commend the follow- 

 ing extract from the eleventh chapter of 

 Leviticus to Mr. Gladstone's serious attention : 



And these are they which are unclean unto you among the 

 creeping things that creep upon the earth : the weasel, and the 

 mouse, and the great lizard after its kind, and the gecko, and 

 the land-crocodile, and the sand-lizard, ahd the chameleon. 

 These are they which are unclean to you among all that creep 

 (v. 29-31). 



The merest Sunday-school exegesis therefore 

 suffices to prove that when the " Mosaic writer " 

 in Genesis i. 24 speaks of " creeping things/' he 

 means to include lizards among them. 



This being so, it is agreed, on all hands, that 

 terrestrial lizards, and other reptiles allied to 

 lizards, occur in the Permian strata. It is 

 further agreed that the Triassic strata were 

 deposited after these. Moreover, it is well 

 known that, even if certain footprints are to be 



