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the mammoth both appeared upon the scene. Man the head 
and chief of the whole creation, the mammoth the head and 
chief of the beheruah or cattle. They are creations (in the 
language of Scripture) of the sixth day, and neither the one 
nor the other is found associated with the ferocious saurians 
of the fifth day’s creation, with whom indeed they would have 
been incompatible. 
I have the greatest objection to forcing a supposed agree- 
ment between Genesis and geology, Avhen in truth we are as 
yet so far from having attained the complete knowledge either 
of one or the other, but it is absolutely necessary to define with 
some precision the terms we use. We may speak of aeons or 
of Indian Kalpas, or, as it seems to me, with more advantage, 
in Scriptural phrase of days to indicate periods, whose duration 
passes our comprehension. 
In the earliest ceons then of which we have any records — in 
the rocks — life, whether vegetable or animal, was perfect in its 
kind, but apparently sparsely scattered in the midst of uncon- 
genial circumstances. The world was not yet prepared for 
great creations. 
From the early Silurian dawn, however, we find the same 
contrast between the mathematical forms of crystallization and 
the spiral and elegant forms of life, which I have endeavoured 
before to illustrate, and which our “ scientists 33 choose to 
ignore. 
Afterwards followed the day when the earth brought forth 
the tender grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, 
