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and the tree yielding fruit whose seed was in itself after his 
kind : — not by development of the earlier creations, with which 
it would be difficult to trace any connection, but the earth 
itself bringing forth these things according to divinely con- 
ceived and implanted ideas. 
So, in his better days, Sir C. Lyell expressed it : — “ It 
appears that species have a real existence in nature, and that 
each was endowed, at the time of its creation, with the attri- 
butes and organization by which it is now distinguished.” 
Next followed, according to Scripture, and, I think, accord- 
ing to the testimony of the rocks, the command to the waters 
to “swarm forth swarms ” of creeping things having living souls, 
and fowls were to fly above the earth in the open firmament of 
heaven. 
These would find their food ready prepared, both in the seas 
and in the abundant fruits and seeds with which the earth was 
already replenished, and their multitudinous increase was 
checked and kept down by appointed and most formidable 
destroyers. 
But none of the animals suited especially to minister to the 
wants or to become the companions and friends of man had 
yet appeared upon the scene. It was needful to introduce 
the mammiferous animals, creatures of another origin and of 
blood entirely diverse; showing how impossible it is for the 
one to be derived from the other by “ natural selection,” for 
the effects produced by the injection of the blood of the one 
into the other are comparable to those which follow the intro- 
duction of the most energetic poison. 
“ Earth, air, and water have their mammiferous animals. 
This provision is a physical and even moral advance in 
animated nature, for amongst the animals thus furnished, man 
himself takes his place, and wherever the mother’s breast is, 
there is there a strong parental affection for the offspring.” 
The creations of the sixth age were thus benevolently asso- 
ciated with man. 
Between the head of the mammiferous cattle and the head 
of the whole creation there are these points of resemblance, 
that both appear upon the scene perfect, without, as far as 
geology can ascertain, any predecessors. They both “come,” 
as it will be seen, at a late period of the world’s history. Ono is 
destined to survive, the other, after long ages, to disappear; 
but both have this peculiarity, that they have been adapted to 
spread over a very wide extent of the earth’s surface, the 
mammoth to multiply exceedingly, the man to replenish the 
earth and subdue it. Wherever the mammoth, a quiet herbi- 
vore, could exist, man could doubtless find means to live. 
