Each are ends in a “day” of two great works,--the two shown to be distinct by being severally pronounced “good.” On the _third_ “day,” that closing the Inorganic era, there was first the _dividing of the land from the waters_, and afterward the _creation of vegetation_, or the institution of a kingdom of life,--a work widely diverse from all preceding it in the era. Soon the _sixth_ “day,” terminating the Organic era, there was first _the creation of Mammals_, and then a second far greater work, totally new in its grandest element, _the creation of Man_. The arrangement is, then, as follows:-- 1. _The Inorganic Era._ 1st Day.--LIGHT cosmical. 2d Day.--The earth divided from the fluid around it, or individualized. { 1. Outlining of the land and water. 3d Day.--{ 2. Creation of vegetation. 2. _The Organic Era._ 4th Day.--LIGHT from the sun. 5th Day.--Creation of the lower orders of animals. 6th Day.--{ 1. Creation of Mammals. { 2. Creation of Man. In addition, the last day of each era included one work typical of the era, and another related to it in essential points, but also prophetic of the future. Vegetation, while, for physical reasons, a part of the creation of the third day, was also prophetic of the future Organic era, in which the progress of life was the grand characteristic. The record thus accords with the fundamental principle in history that the characteristic of an age has its beginnings within the age preceding. So, again, Man, while like other Mammals in structure, even to the homologies of every bone and muscle, was endowed with a spiritual nature, which looked forward to another era, that of spiritual existence.--The _seventh_ “day,” the day of rest from the work of creation, is man’s period of preparation for that new existence; and it is to promote this special end that--in strict parallelism--the Sabbath follows man’s six days of work. The record in the Bible is, therefore, profoundly philosophical in the scheme of creation which it presents. It is both true and divine. It is a declaration of authorship, both of Creation and the Bible, on the first page of the sacred volume. There can be no real conflict between the two Books of the GREAT AUTHOR. Both are revelations made by Him to man,--the _earlier_ telling of God-made harmonies coming up from the deep past, and rising to their height when man appeared, the _later_ teaching man’s relations to his Maker, and speaking of loftier harmonies in the eternal future. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 1: Twelve Lectures on the Connection between Science and Revealed Religion, by NICHOLAS WISEMAN, D.D., Principal of the English College, and Professor in the University of Rome. Andover: Gould & Newman, 1837.] [Footnote 2: Prelectiones Theologicæ.] [Footnote 3: Cosmogonia Naturale comparata Col Genesi.]