136 FAMOUS SCOTS 



and morning breaks on the sixth and last day of creation. 

 Cattle and beasts of the field graze on the plains ; the 

 thick-skinned rhinoceros wallows in the marshes ; the squat 

 hippopotamus rustles among the reeds, or plunges sullenly 

 into the river ; great herds of elephants seek their food amid 

 the young herbage of the woods ; while animals of fiercer 

 nature the lion, the leopard, and the bear harbour in deep 

 caves till the evening, or lie in wait for their prey amid 

 tangled thickets, or beneath some broken bank. At length, 

 as the day wanes and the shadows lengthen, man, the 

 responsible lord of creation, formed in God's own image, is 

 introduced upon the scene, and the work of creation ceases 

 for ever upon the earth. 



* The night falls once more upon the prospect, and there 

 dawns yet another morrow the morrow of God's rest 

 that divine Sabbath in which there is no more creative 

 labour, and which, " blessed and sanctified " beyond all the 

 days that had gone before, has as its special object the 

 moral elevation and final redemption of man. And over // 

 no evening is represented in the record as falling, for its 

 special work is not yet complete. Such seems to have been 

 the sublime panorama of creation exhibited in vision of 



old to 



" The Shepherd who first taught the chosen seed, 

 In the beginning how the heavens and earth 

 Rose out of chaos " ; 



and, rightly understood, I know not a single scientific truth 

 that militates against even the minutest or least prominent 

 of its details,' 



The Origin of Species in 1859 was issued after 

 Miller's death, but the leading doctrines of Darwin 

 were not unknown before that time to the public 



