t Noah is said to have shut himself up in the ark, that the
priests of Egypt shut up in their sacred coffer or ark the image of
Osiris, a personification of the Sun. This was on the 17th of the month
Athor, in which the Sun enters the Scorpion. (See Kenrick's Egypt, vol.
i. p. 410.) The history of Noah also corresponds, in some respects, with
that of Bacchus, another personification of the Sun.

[28:2] See Maurice's Indian Antiquities, vol. ii. p. 268.

[29:1] "In America, along with the bones of the _Mastodon_ imbedded in
the alluvium of the Bourbense, were found arrow heads and other traces
of the savages who had killed this member of an order no longer
represented in that part of the world." (Herbert Spencer: Principles of
Sociology, vol. i. p. 17.)

[29:2] Darwin: Descent of Man, p. 156. We think it may not be out of
place to insert here what might properly be called: "_The Drama of
Life_," which is as follows:

Act i. Azoic: Conflict of Inorganic Forces.
Act ii. Paleozoic: Age of Invertebrates.
{ Scene i. Eozoic: Enter Protozoans and Protophytes.
{ " ii. Silurian: Enter the Army of Invertebrates.
Primary { " iii. Devonian: Enter Fishes.
{ " iv. Carboniferous: (Age of Coal Plants) Enter
First _Air_ breathers.
Act iii. Mesozoic: Enter Reptiles.
{ Scene i. Triassic: Enter Batrachians.
Secondary { " ii. Jurassic: Enter huge Reptiles of Sea, Land
{ and Air.
{ " iii. Cretaceous: (Age of Chalk) Enter Ammonites.
Act iv. Cenozoic: (Age of Mammals.)
{ Scene i. Eocene: Enter Marine Mammals, and probably
{ _Man_.
Tertiary { " ii. Miocene: Enter Hoofed Quadrupeds.
{ " iii. Pliocene: Enter Proboscidians and Edentates.
Act v. Post Tertiary: _Positive_ Age of Man.
{ Scene i. Glacial: Ice and Drift Periods.
{ " ii. Champlain: _Sinking Continents_; Warmer;
{ Tropical Animals go _North_.
Post Tertiary { " iii. Terrace: Rising Continents; Colder.
{ " iv. Present: Enter Science, Iconoclasts, &c., &c.

[29:3] Draper: Religion and Science, p. 199.