MOSAIC ACCOUNT OF CREATION. 27 



sary connection either with his Origin or his 

 Primitive Condition. 



There is another point connected with this 

 division of the whole subject into three sepa- 

 rate questions, which has not perhaps been 

 sufficiently considered, and that is the different 

 degrees of connection which these questions 

 have respectively, with the Mosaic narrative. 

 I have already said that the inquiry as con- 

 ducted both by Archbishop Whately and Sir 

 J. Lubbock is avowedly conducted on a purely 

 scientific basis. It is in the same light that 

 it will be considered here. But it may be 

 useful to observe in passing, that in regard to 

 some of these questions the Mosaic account of 

 Creation (apart altogether from any suggestions 

 which have been raised as to the allegorical 



