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great Tracts of Creative Time undergoes no 

 change whatever. Man is the latest work. 

 Recent discoveries have thrown no doubt on 

 this, but, on the contrary, have all tended 

 to confirm it. I know of no one moral or 

 religious truth which depends on a short 

 estimate of Man's antiquity. On the contrarj-, 

 a high estimate of that antiquity is of great 

 value in its bearing upon another question 

 much more important than the question of 

 time can ever be — viz., the question of 

 the Unity of the Human Race. We must 

 indeed be very cautious in identifying the 

 interests of Religion with any interpretation 

 (however certain we may have hitherto as- 

 sumed it to be) of the language of Scripture 

 upon subjects which are accessible to scien- 



