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who entertain such views can be led to read the book, we have but 
little doubt. In this respect alone, therefore, apart from its general 
value, we may fairly welcome it, and urge its perusal upon those who 
still blindly look upon geology, and upon natural science generally, as 
antagonistic in some undefined manner to the spirit of Revelation. 
It is difficult to extract a passage, sufficiently independent of the 
context for quotation, without occupying a larger space than our limits 
permit ; but the following from one of the introductory chapters, in 
which the author claims for the Holy Scriptures a deeper insight into 
natural phenomena than many have hitherto foreseen, may serve as an 
example of the style and general expression of the work : 
“The law of type or pattern in nature is distinctly indicated in the Bible. This 
is a principle only recently understood by naturalists, but it has more or less dimly 
dawned on the minds of many great thinkers in all ages. Nor is this wonderful, 
for the idea ef type is scarcely ever absent from our own conceptions of any work 
that we may undertake. In any such work we anticipate recurring daily toil, 
like the returning cycles of nature. We look for progress, like that of the growth 
of the universe. We study adaptation both of the several parts to subordinate 
uses and of the whole to some general design. But we also keep in view some 
pattern, style, or order, according to which the whole is arranged, and the mutual 
relations of the parts are jadjusted. The architect must adhere to some order of 
architecture, and to some style within that order. The potter, the calico-printer, 
and the silversmith, must equally study uniformity of pattern in their several 
manufactures. The Almighty Worker has exhibited the same idea in his works. 
In the animal kingdom, for instance, we have four leading types of structure. 
Taking any one of these—the vertebrate, for example—we have a uniform general 
plan, embracing the vertebral column constructed of the same elements; the 
members, whether the arm of man, the limb of the quadruped, or the wing of 
the bat or the bird, or the swimming paddle of the whale, built of the same 
bones. In like manner all the parts of the vertebral column itself in the same 
animal, whether in the skull, the neck or the trunk, are composed of the same 
elementary structures. These types are farther found to be sketched out,—first 
in their more general, and then in their special features—in proceeding from the 
lower species of the same type to the higher, in proceeding from the earlier to 
the later stages of embryonic development, and in proceeding from the more 
ancient to the more recent creatures that have succeeded each other in geological 
time. Man, the highest of the vertebrates, is thus the archetype, representing and 
including all the lower and earlier members of the vertebrate type. The xbove 
are but trite and familiar examples of a doctrine which may furnish and has fur- 
nished the material of volumes. There can be no question that the Hebrew Bible 
is the oldest book in which this principle is stated. In the first chapter of 
Genesis we have specific type in the creation of plants and animals after their 
kinds or species, and in the formation of man in the image and likeness of the 
