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tablets of painters ; and, through them, has been from infancy so 
deeply imprinted on most men’s minds, that maturer judgment rarely 
stops,” says Dr. Buckland, “ to inquire precisely as to the source of 
such notion upon these matters, unless some special occasion calls 
for its investigation.” 
In this instance the ancient story of the earth agrees with the 
statement of Revelation, as it does, we believe, in every other 
case, when properly understood and rightly interpreted; for we 
have already seen that various generations of living creatures 
ranged the plains, and swarmed the lakes, and were blotted out 
from life long, long before man ever placed his foot on this won- 
drous soil. 
“ When our minds dwell on such a subject as this, we seem to 
have entered another world, amidst the eternal roar and clash of 
those angry elements which had not then subsided into the fixed- 
ness and tranquillity with which they now meet our gaze. We 
discern the finger of design, and we hear the voice of the Deity 
from those vast oceans in which was going on the process of a 
world’s formation, and the petrified relics and shattered remains 
of mysterious monsters come forth, such as never met the eye of 
humanity. And why do they come 1 Why, but to tell us that 
the same Providence whose wisdom all science acknowledges, the 
beauty and harmony of whose government is seen alike in sum- 
mer’s calm and in winter’s storm, sheds the same bright and beauti- 
ful influence over the waves in which the ichthyosaurus sported 
and the forests through which the mammoth roamed*.” Surely, 
it would be a very lame and impotent conclusion, to suppose 
that the Deity created these seeming monsters, these ancient lords 
of the creation, besides millions of creatures such as these, and 
kinds unnamed by man, for no other purpose than that they might 
eat each other up, “ like the Kilkenny cats in the saw-pit.” Yet, 
such a conclusion we must arrive at, if there is no future state, nor 
other friendly planet where their spirits might safely migrate. 
[To be concluded in our next Number.] 
A CHARGE OF FALSEHOOD REFUTED. 
By W. Youatt. 
As two most valuable contributors to The VETERINARIAN have 
done me the honour, unsolicited, to review my little work on 
“ The Extent and Obligation of Humanity to Brutes;” and, in his 
* Ince’s Wonders of the World. 
