l of these, and so he appointed that an ark should be made to
bear up the living cargo which was to be kept alive on the surface of
the waters; and not only so, but he respects the laws of the animal
physiology, as he did those of hydrostatics, in that he put them by
pairs into the ark, male and female, to secure their transmission to
after ages, and food was stored up to sustain them during their long
confinement. In short, he dispenses with miracles when these are not
requisite for the fulfilment of his ends; and he never dispenses with
the ordinary means when these are fitted, and at the same time
sufficient, for the occasion."--_Daily Scripture Readings_, vol. i. p.
10.

[32] For a brief but masterly view of these ancient cosmogonies, see the
Rev. D. Macdonald's "Creation and the Fall." Edinburgh: Constable & Co.

[33]

1. The great surrounding oceans.
2. Caspian Sea.
3. River Phison.
4-4. Points of the Compass.
5. Mediterranean Sea.
6. Red Sea.
7-8. Persian Gulf, with the rivers Tigris and Euphrates.
9. River Gihon.

[34]

1. The sun Occident.
2. The sun orient.
3. The Heavens.
4. Great mountain behind which the sun is hidden when it is night.
5. The Mediterranean Sea.
6. Red Sea.
7. Persian Gulf.
8. Garden of Eden.
9. Great surrounding ocean
10. The Creator looking down upon his work, and seeing that all was good.

[35] The very different terms which Mr. Powell employs in characterizing
the anti-geologists, from those which he makes use of in denouncing the
men honestly bent on reconciling the enunciations of revelation with the
findings of geologic science,--a class which included in the past,
divines such as Chalmers, Buckland, and Pye Smith, and comprises divines
such as Hitchcock and the Archbishop of Canterbury now,--is worthy of
being noted. In two sermons, "Christianity without Judaism," written by
this clergyman of the Church of England, to show that all days of the
week are alike, and the Christian Sabbath a mere blunder, I find the
following passage:--"Some divines have consistently rejected all geology
and all science as profane and carnal; and some even, when pretending to
call themselves men of science, have stooped to the miserable policy, of
tampering with the truth, investing the real facts in false disguises,
to cringe to the prejudices of the many, and to pervert science into a
seeming accordance with popular prepossessions." I cannot