sorts, which for color and shape alter even 

 as the ground out of which they are got; as 

 the dew-worm, the lob-worm, the marsh-worm, 

 the tag-tail, the oak-worm, the gilt-tail, &c, too 

 many to name, even as many sorts, as some 

 think there be of birds in the air. Pliny 

 holds an opinion, that many have their birth 

 or being from dews that in the spring fall 

 upon the leaves of trees ; all which kinds of 

 dews being thickened and condensed, are by 

 the sun's generative heat most of them 

 hatch 'd and are in three days living creatures, 

 and of several shapes and colors; some being 

 hard and tough, some smooth and soft; some 

 are horned in their head, some in their tail, 

 some have none ; some have hair, some none • 

 some have sixteen feet, some less, some none," 

 &c, &c. 



" Heresy," cries the theologian, " were not 

 all creatures made directly by the hand of 

 God ?" Softly ! honest Izaak Walton was as 

 sound a theologian and, we believe, as sincere 

 a Christian, as you will find in many a day; 

 yet he did not consider it derogatory to the 

 power of God to suppose him working by 

 means of fixed laws. The theory of Spon- 

 taneous Generation was admitted by the 

 theology of the seventeenth century. Our 

 theology is the same as in A. D. 1653. The 

 philological discoveries of the past two cen- 

 turies, and the consequent improvements in 

 Biblical exegesis have affected it but little. 

 Job's exclamation, " I know that my Re- 

 deemer liveth, and in my flesh shall I see 

 God,'' still stands in our burial service as a 

 proof of the resurrection of the body; when 

 we all know that it should be translated "and 

 without my flesh shall I see God." Science 

 proved spontaneous generation an impossi- 

 bilitv, and Theology now therefore virtually 



