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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 42

Animal Life

Animal Life.

One remarkable feature in this lecture is that no fault is found with the Bible record of animal life. It seems to quite agree with our lecturers's idea of progress: of this I feel glad. He seems to be perfectly satisfied that the waters brought forth living creatures first, and that next the air was peopled with the winged tribes, and then that the dry land was the scene of animal existence. It is a relief to find some part of the record uncontradicted. Probably Moses has established his reputation as a trusty natural historian, notwithstanding his serious geological and astronomical blunders? But as that department has been so loosely passed over, I feel some doubt in claiming this triumph for Moses, for the truth may be that Ingersoll had not given quite sufficient attention to that particular branch of study to enable him to enter the arena upon it, or doubtless he would have tried to give his antagonist a hard knock or two. I put in this remark because I find that as Ingersoll did know something of "man," he makes a tremendous effort to throw Moses over on that point, and the order of events during this last period of the great work of creation, of which he contends Moses has given two accounts contradictory on two essential points. We shall devote a few lines to examine the assertion about the