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of new species? "Are these new species," asks the 

 erudite Master of Trinity, "gradually evolved from 

 some embryo substance ? Or do they suddenly 

 start from the ground, as in the creation of the poet ? " 



" Perfect forms 



Limbed and full grown : out of the ground up rose, 

 As from his lair, the wild beast where he wons 

 In forest wild, in thicket, brake, or den ; . . . 

 The grassy clods now calved ; now half appear'd 

 The tawny lion, pawing to get free 

 His hinder parts, then springs as broke from bonds, 

 And rampant shakes his brinded mane ; the ounce, 

 The libbard, and the tiger, as the mole 

 Rising, the crumbled earth above them threw 

 In hillocks; the swift stag from underground 

 Bore up his branching head ; scarce from his mould 

 Behemoth, biggest born of earth, upheaved 

 His vastness: fleeced the flocks and bleating rose, 

 As plants; ambiguous between sea and land 

 The river-horse and scaly crocodile. 

 At once come forth whatever creeps the ground, 

 Insect or worm." l 



We have here what Huxley calls the " Miltonic 

 hypothesis" fully developed even in its minutest de- 

 tails. But this view of special creation, it is but 

 just to state, may be offset by another passage, less 

 frequently quoted it is true, from the great bard, 

 which as clearly tells of creation by Evolution. In 

 both instances the archangel Raphael appears as the 



1(1 Paradise Lost," Book VII. 



