14 . CREATION OF ANIMALS. 



it seems to me very improbable for this reason, 

 that it supposes the first pair to have in them 

 the germes of all these animal pests, which 

 although, before the fall, they were restrained 

 from germination, after that event, were left 

 to the ordinary action of physical laws, so that 

 then every one of these scourges must have 

 inhabited them and preyed upon them. Fallen 

 indeed they were from glory and grace, but who 

 can think that all the accumulated evils that their 

 sin introduced into the world fell with concen- 

 trated violence upon their own heads, that all the 

 various ills that flesh is heir to were experienced 

 by them in their own persons before they were 

 divided, some to one and some to another, 

 amongst their posterity? It is scarcely to be 

 supposed that any single individual, from that 

 time to this, was subject to the annoyance of 

 every one of these animals, and it seems incre- 

 dible that Adam and Eve had experience of 

 them all. 



That they had their existence originally 

 either as germes or as perfect animals in the 

 air, the earth, or the waters, and were taken 

 in by man with his food, with respect to some 

 species may, perhaps, be true. The earth-worm 

 is often voided by children, and some other 

 that infest animals are found in the water, but 

 of those that are appropriated to man internally, 

 none have as yet been found, except that just 



