second is that of mediate
creation, through the materials previously existing, as when he said,
"Let the land bring forth plants," or "Let the waters bring forth
animals." The third is that of production from a previous organism by
power other than that of ordinary reproduction, as in the origination
of Eve from Adam, and the miraculous conception of Jesus. These are
the only points in which its teachings approach the limits of
speculations as to evolution, and they certainly leave scope enough
for the legitimate inquiries of science.[98]

CHAPTER XI.

THE HIGHER ANIMALS AND MAN.

"And God said, Let the land bring forth animals after their
kinds; the herbivora, the reptiles, and the carnivora, after
their kinds; and it was so. And God made carnivorous mammals
after their kinds, and herbivorous mammals after their
kinds, and every reptile of the land after its kind; and God
saw that it was good.

"And God said, Let us make man in our own image, after our
likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the
birds of the air, and over the herbivora and over all the
land. So God created man in his own image, in the image of
God created he him; male and female created he them. And God
blessed them; and God said, Be fruitful and multiply, and
replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over
the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air, and over
every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

"And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing
seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree
in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it
shall be for food, and to every beast of the earth and to
every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon
the earth wherein there is life, I have given every green
herb for meat; and it was so. And God saw every thing that
he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And evening and
morning were the sixth day."--Genesis i., 24-31.

The creation of animals, unlike that of plants, occupies two days.
Here our attention is restricted to the inhabitants of the _land_, and
chiefly to their higher forms. Several new names are introduced to our
notice, which I have endeavored to translate as literally as possible
by introducing zoological terms where those in common use were
deficient.

1. The first