[128] "There have been found within the area of these islands upwards of 15,000 species of once living things, _every one differing specifically from those of the present Creation_. Agassiz states that, with the exception of one small fossil fish, (discovered in the clay-stones of Greenland,) _he has not found any creature of this class, in all the Geological strata, identical with any fish now living_." (Pattison's _The Earth and the World_, p. 27.) [129] I allude to such passages as the following,--all of which are to be found in Mr. Goodwin's Essay:-- "We are asked to believe that a vision of creation was presented to him (Moses) by Divine power, for the purpose of enabling him to inform the world of what he had seen; which vision inevitably led him to give a description which has misled the world for centuries, and in which the truth can now only with difficulty be recognized." (p. 247.) "The theories [of Hugh Miller and of Dr. Buckland] assume that appearances only, not facts, are described; and that, in riddles which would never have been suspected to be such, had we not arrived at the truth from other sources." (p. 249.) "For ages, this simple view of Creation satisfied the wants of man, and formed a sufficient basis of theological teaching:" but "modern research now shews it to be physically untenable." (p. 253.) "The writer asserts solemnly and unhesitatingly that for which he must have known that he had no authority." But this was only because "the early speculator was harassed by no such scruples" as "arise from our modern habits of thought, and from the modesty of assertion (!) which the spirit of true science has taught us." He therefore "asserted as facts what he knew in reality only as probabilities.... He had seized one great truth.... With regard to details, observation failed him."--(pp. 252-3.) [130] p. 329. [131] pp. 307-309. [132] Notice prefixed to _Essays and Reviews_. [133] p. 255. [134] Nos. 74, 76, 78, 81. [135] I allude particularly to the late Hugh James Rose, B.D. [136] Neh. iv. 17, 18. [137] St. Luke xviii. 8. [138] See Nelson's _Life of Bull_, p. 329, &c. [139] See his admirable Preface. [140] Newman's dedication of his 'Lectures on Romanism and popular Protestantism.' [141] See the 'Monitum' prefixed to Dr. Routh's _Testimonia De Auctoritate S. Scripturæ Ante-Nicæna.--Reliqq. Sacræ_, vol. v. p. 335. [142] "In 1781, the first Sunday School was established in England by Robert Raikes, a publisher and bookseller in Gloucester."--National Society's _Circular_. [143] _Primary Charge_, at the end of his _Sermons_. [144] Rev. M. Pattison, in _Essays and Reviews_, p. 307. [145] pp. 338, 375, 420 top line, 428, &c. [146] See all this very ably and interestingly explained in an article reprinted from the 'Christian Remembrancer' (Jan. 1861,) _On certain Characteristics of Holy Scripture_, by the Rev. J. G. Cazenove, p. 11, &c.