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marked with one or more of the characteristic plants or 
animals that have been named. 
Adopting as my chart the Bible, which is believed to 
contain the fall evidence of truth, I propose the following as 
the order of treatment : — 
I. Man's time and place in geological history. 
II. His origin as a zoological species ; and the method of 
his creation. 
III. His mental state and condition when first created. 
The first two of these divisions may be considered as intro- 
ductory to the main subject, and should be well understood 
and possessed by all, previously to taking up the inquiry. 
They will thus be well prepared for deciding on the When 
and the How, as well as on the Where and the Why, to be 
treated of in the present communication. 
These preliminaries being settled, I now begin by stating 
my ideas upon the origin and antiquity of man, referring to 
Gen. i. 23, where we are told that the evening and the 
morning concluded the fifth day. 
The next verse details the creation of living creatures, 
cattle, creeping things, and beasts. In ver. 27 we read that 
God created man in His own image and after His likeness, 
with dominion over the fish of the sea, fowls of the air, and 
over all the earth. God created man in His own image, 
“ male and female created He them." It is particularly 
necessary to retain distinct ideas conveyed by the ex- 
pressions in the text, in order to contrast it by-and-by with 
those views subsequently detailed in the creation of the 
Sabbatic Adam. 
Starting with the earliest or pre- Sabbatic chronology, the 
first few stages recording the creation of plants and lower 
animals, the detail of scattered events of the first five days 
may be passed over as concluded by the evening and morning 
of the fifth day, in order to arrive at that period when man- 
kind — male and female — were created by the will of the 
Triune Heavenly Council, in the image and likeness of Elohiru, 
or the Word who created all things. 
The first events of the sixth day were the creation of living 
creatures, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts. During 
this sixth very eventful period of man's creation, I feel strongly 
impelled to place the creation of all the various races of man- 
kind, with constitutions fitted and well adapted to pass their 
lives in the different regions and climates in their best and 
happiest state, increasing and multiplying, replenishing and 
