"Nor can it be ever more than a speculation; it cannot be established by observation, nor can it be proved by calculation. It is merely a conjecture, more or less plausible, but perhaps in some degree, necessarily true, if our present laws of heat, as we understand them, admit of the extreme application here required, and if the present order of things has reigned for sufficient time without the intervention of any influence at present known to us" (_The Story of the Heavens,_ p. 506). Would any prudent advocate base a plea, either for or against revelation, upon the coincidence, or want of coincidence, of the declarations of the latter with the requirements of an hypothesis thus guardedly dealt with by an astronomical expert?] [Footnote 9: Lectures on Evolution delivered in New York (American Addresses).] [Footnote 10: Reuss, _L'Histoire Sainte et la Loi,_ vol. i, p. 275.] [Footnote 11: For the sense of the term "Elohim," see the essay entitled "The Evolution of Theology" at the end of this volume.] [Footnote 12: Perhaps even hippopotamuses and otters!] End of Project Gutenberg's Mr. Gladstone and Genesis, by Thomas Henry Huxley