PREFACE. 



from her conclusions, I gladly rest upon 

 one of the mottoes which she has prefixed 

 to her work " Search the Scriptures. . . . 

 they are they which testify of ME." While 

 I exceedingly admire the whole " get up " 

 of the work in question, the beauty of the 

 type, with its illustrative coloured diagrams, 

 and the delightful spirit in which the work 

 is composed, I am content to adhere to my 

 previous opinion that the origin of the 

 human race on earth is due solely and 

 exclusively to the last act of Divine 

 Wisdom, in creating man after the image 

 and likeness of God; and that this feeling- 

 is in a great measure shared by Mrs. Hughes 

 herself I cannot doubt, from the fact of her 

 DEDICATION having been addressed " to 

 those searchers after truth, who, without 

 implicit trust in their own finite powers, 

 take delight in tracing the deep laws o 

 the Almighty as typified in His word, 

 and embodied in the beautiful work of 

 Nature." 



One more testimony I venture to give 

 on this interesting subject, from the pen of, 



