152 Cells; or j Evolution. 



the waters of the ocean below, and suspended in a 

 permanent atmosphere of lighter gases, which 

 Moses calls an " expanse" or " firmament," dividing 

 the waters beneath from the waters above. 



167. The crust of the earth heaving upwards in 

 some places, sank in other parts; and the waters 



gathered together here, in seas, while the 



Third Day. , . . ° . . ' ' 



dry land appeared there. 1 hose parts 

 which were never to be the home of man sank, 

 never to rise more. Mr. John Murray informs the 

 world, as the last results of the " Challenger" 

 explorations (No. 67 above), that the abysmal 

 regions of the Atlantic are unique: they have 

 never been elevated, never a continent of dry 

 land. " The result of many lines of investigation 

 seem to show that in the abysmal regions we have 

 the most permanent areas of the earth's surface." 

 I refer to his account, as reported in Nature, Octo- 

 ber 15, 1885. And Sir J. W. Dawson, of Canada, 

 informed the British Association in September of 

 the following year, that " the history of ocean and 

 continent is an example of progressive design, quite 

 as much as that of living things." 



168. There was now land and sea. There was 

 heat — an excess of it, even in the waters. And 

 there was light. The sun was not as yet; and the 

 light was a phosphorescent or nebulous one, com- 

 ing from the molten, central mass, which, having 

 thrown off the earth already, had yet to throw off 

 other planets, and then to be condensed into a sun. 



