THE NOACHIAN FLOOD. 6 1 



to one of his friends, stamped on the ground, and pro- 

 nounced in an emphatic whisper, " Eppure si muove V' 

 but still it does move.' 



As the antipodes exist, as the earth goes round the 

 sun, and as the Bible continues to be true, in spite of 

 the theologians and inquisitors at Salamanca and at 

 Rome, so will it continue to be true and full of truth, 

 when at length it shall be acknowledged, as it will be, 

 that there is nothing universal about the Noachian 

 Deluge except the disbelief in its universality. 



1 ' The Daughter of Galileo,' by the author of Mary Powell,' p. 283. 



