Looking back over the examination into the first chapter of the book of Genesis we have just concluded, we cannot conceive how it could ever have entered into the thoughts of man, that the state of vegetable and animal life on the earth, at the present day, must have been brought about by continual and unceasing acts of creation, when creation has been mentioned only on three occasions during the whole process described in the chapter we have analysed, that is, 3 out of 31 verses; and while the other processes which we have brought forward--making and spontaneous generation--have never been alluded to, perhaps not even thought of. We have no desire, neither are we qualified, to follow up this subject any further, but we have still one or two things to bring into remembrance. One of the most illustrious of the founders of the Theory of Evolution has based his dissertations on the Descent of Man, on the Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, and on their _wonderful plasticity under the care of man_. Here there is an explicit acknowledgment of the necessity for the direction of an intelligent guiding power to produce such variations; these never having any useful or progressive results except under such care. If, then, there is a necessity of such directing and guiding power in the case of variations of such inferior importance, the superintendence of some similar power must have assuredly been much more necessary for the creation and evolution of matter, of life, and of man himself. This is what, one would think, common sense and reason would point, and what the Theory of Evolution seems to think--evidently without studying the subject far enough; but all that it has been able to do has been to substitute Nature for the Creator to whom Moses has ascribed not only _Creation_ but the _Making--Evolution_--of the universe.