ON CHLOROFORMING HORSES. 215 



ON CHLOKOFOKMING HOUSES. 



In the first book of Genesis, although on the bursting 

 out of light ; on the gathering together of the waters to 

 let the dry land appear ; on the creation of the grass, the 

 herb, and the fruit-tree ; of the sun, moon, and stars ; of 

 the. fishes of the sea ; of the fowls of the air ; of the beast 

 of the earth, of the cattle, of every living creature, and 

 everything that creepeth upon the earth, we are informed 

 by Moses that on each of these successive formations " God 

 saw that it was good ;" yet, the same six important words 

 of approval were not (as in all the previous instances they 

 had been) especially uttered on the creation of man, the 

 reason possibly being that of the works of creation every 

 thing was fixed, and " of its kind " immutably " good," 

 save human reason, which, for the weal or woe of the 

 favoured race on whom alone it was bestowed, was gifted 

 with an elasticity by which its character, capable of being 

 elevated or depressed to almost immeasurable distances 

 above or below the level of its original creation, might 

 become either " good " or evil. 



And accordingly, while the heat of the sun, the light 

 of the moon, the brightness of the stars, the force of the 

 hurricane, the velocity of light, the movements of the 

 heavenly bodies, the return of the seasons, have neither 

 increased nor diminished in the smallest degree ; yet 



