346 A DECADE OF WORK AT HOME.  [1847, 
mention that he opposes Lyell and others who main- 
tain that very many of the Tertiary species are the 
same as those now existing. He believes there is not 
one such, but that there was an entirely new creation 
at the commencement of the historie era, which is all 
we want to harmonize geology with Genesis. Now, 
as to man he maintains distinctly that they are all one 
species. But he does not believe that the Negro and 
Malay races descended from the sons of Noah, but 
had a distinct origin. This, you will see, is merely an 
extension of his general view. We should not re- 
ceive it, rejecting it on other than scientific grounds, 
of which he does not feel the force as we do. 
But so far from bringing this against the Bible, he 
brings the Bible to sustain his views, thus appealing 
to its authority instead of endeavoring to overthrow it. 
He shows from it (conclusively) that all the sons of 
Noah (Ham with the rest) were the fathers of the ex- 
tant Caucasian races,—races which have remained 
nearly unaltered from the first, and that if any negroes 
proceeded from Ham’s descendants, it must have been 
by a miracle. That is the upshot of the matter. We 
may reject his conclusions, but we cannot find fault 
with his spirit, and I shall be glad to know that Dr. I. 
A. Smith, in the whole course of his public teaching, 
has displayed a reverence for the Bible equal to that 
of Agassiz. I have been on the most intimate terms 
with him: I never heard him express an opinion or a 
word adverse to the claims of revealed religion. His 
admirable lectures on embryology contain the most 
original and fundamental confutation of materialism I 
ever heard. 
I make the “Manual” keep clear of slavery, —New 
Jersey, Pennsylvania (if little Delaware manumits 
