[Footnote 2: And the Psalmist justly speaks of God as _preparing_ the light of the sun (Psa. lxxiv. 16).] It is very remarkable, as showing how little we can attribute this narrative, on any basis of probability, to mere fancy or guess-work, that this matter should have been assigned to the fourth day--_after_ the fiat for plant-life had gone forth. But the fact is that the unregulated light, and the vaporous uniform climate that must have continued if the fourth day's command had never issued, though it might have served for a time for the lowest beginnings of life, especially marine or aquatic, would ultimately have rendered any advance in the series of design impossible. Such a fact would never have occurred to an ignorant and uninspired writer. It is here impossible to say whether the whole arrangements indicated were made at once in obedience to the Divine Design, or were produced gradually. It has been suggested that uniformity of climate and temperature continued up till the carboniferous ages, at any rate; and it is only in the later ages that such differences of _fauna_ in different parts of the world appear, as to show differences of climate more like what we have at present. Whether this is so or not, I am not concerned to argue. The narrative tells us that God did, at a certain point in his Creative work, design and ordain the necessary arrangements; and physical science may find out, when it is able, how and when the adjustments spoken of came about. (5) AND GOD SAID-- (i.) Let the waters bring forth the moving creature that hath life, (ii.) Let fowl fly above the earth on the face of the expanse. As to (i.) the "creation" consisted of--great sea-monsters (or water monsters), and every living thing that moveth. Then the animal life received a _blessing_. Animals, even the lowliest, are capable of a new feature in life--happiness in their being, which cannot be predicated of plants. (6) AND GOD SAID-- (i.) Let the earth bring forth the living creature after its kind ... the beast of the earth _after its kind (Carnivora)_, cattle _after its kind_ (_Ungulata_), and everything that creepeth on the ground _after its kind_.[1] And also-- (ii.) Let us make man.... So God created man in His own image--in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them. (7) Then followed the day of rest. [Footnote 1: See page 178.] [Transcriber's Note: Chapter XIV.] § 2. _The Order of Events considered._ It was convenient first to bring these later Creative Acts together before beginning any remarks about any one of them.