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will probably entertain his own opinion. My 

 own is, that both organic matter, and organized 

 creatures did probably, and possibly may still, arise 

 in the ordinary course of nature. And I am con- 

 firmed in this opinion by the emphatic language 

 (three times repeated) of Genesis: "And God said, 

 Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding 

 seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, 

 whose seed is in itself upon the earth : and it was so. 

 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding 

 seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose 

 seed was in itself after his kind." And again: 

 "And God said, Let the waters bring forth abund- 

 antly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl 

 that may fly above the earth, in the open firmament 

 of heaven. And God created great whales and every 

 living creature that moveth, which die waters brought 

 forth abundantly after their kind." And again: 

 "And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living 

 creature after his kind, cattle and creeping tiling 

 and beast of the earth after his kind; and it was so."* 



* Genesis L, verse* 11, 12, 20, 21, 24. 



