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were very numerous in the Devonian, that Laby- 

 rinthodonts basked in the sunshine on the shores of 

 Carboniferous swamps, that mighty Frogs croaked in 

 the Triassic, that the Marsupial, greatest great, great, 

 etc., grandfather of the Opossum, was then engaged 

 in his craft of robbing the nests of the long-tailed 

 Archseopteryx, that the Zeuglodon sported in the 

 Gulf of Mexico, in the Eocene, that three and four- 

 toed horses of various kinds played base-ball with 

 boulders in the Rocky Mountain region, thus ridding 

 themselves of their surplus toes, during the Tertiary; 

 that Bears, Tigers and Lions of huge size fought each 

 other like the Kilkenny cats in England during the 

 same period ; that Monkeys chased each other up and 

 down the trees and played "hide and seek "in the 

 forests of the Pliocene, and that, by accident or oth- 

 erwise, the Anthropomorphous, Gorilla-like Ape lost 

 his tail and took to intellectual and moral habits, so 

 that some time during the Quaternary Period he 

 became Adam? 



All of these things, with a great multitude of simi- 

 lar facts, which can hardly be numbered, are of inter- 

 est to the geologist and the evolutionist with their 

 knowledge of modern science, but to the people of 

 the time of Moses it would have been unprofitable 

 reading. 



The cosmogony of Genesis had an infinitely higher 

 and nobler aim than the teaching of the long list of 

 incomprehensible facts contained in the geological 

 record. It was given to impress upon the minds of , 

 that people and of the world, the fact of the exist- 

 ence of the One omnipotent, omniscient, righteous 

 God as the Creator of all things, and to whom all 

 men are responsible for their conduct. 



This teaching of Monotheism came upon the infant 

 race as a revelation, as a flash from Heaven, more 



