But there is this great difference between the cases supposed. A man of universal scientific attainment will be less strong in one subject than another: and in the course of his _Geological_ allusions, if _Mechanical_ Science be his forte,--in the course of his _Metaphysical_ allusions, if _Mathematical_ Science be his proper department,--he may easily err. Above all, the limits of the knowledge of unassisted Man must infallibly be those of the age in which he lives. But, with the Ancient of Days, it is not so. _He_ at least _cannot_ err. Nothing that man has ever discovered by laborious induction was not known to Him from the beginning: nothing that _He_ hath ever commissioned His servants to deliver, will be found inconsistent with the anterior facts of History. "He that _made_ the eye, shall _He_ not see[315]?" The records of Creation then _cannot_ be incorrect. The course of Man's history _must_ be that which, speaking by the mouth of His Prophets, GOD hath described. "I never said the contrary," is the reply. "All I say is that you interpret the records of Creation wrongly: and that you are disposed to lay greater stress on the historical accuracy of the Bible than the narrative will bear." O but, sir, whoever you may be who censure me thus, let me in all kindness warn you of the pit, at the very edge whereof you stand! Far be it from such an one as the preacher to assume that he so apprehends the First Chapter of Genesis, that if an Angel were to turn interpreter, he might not convince me of more than one misapprehension in matters of detail. But of this, at least, I am _quite_ certain; that when I find it recorded that GOD took counsel about Man's Creation: and made him in "His own image," and "breathed into his nostrils the breath of life," whereby man became "a living soul:" and further, when I find it stated that Adam bestowed names upon all creatures: and spake oracularly of his spouse:--I am _certain_, I say, when I read such things, that GOD intended me to believe that Man was created with a Godlike understanding, and with the perfect fruition of the primæval speech. Further, I boldly assert that he who could prove the contradictory, would make the Bible, even as a Theological Book, nothing worth, to you and me.