+------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber’s note: | | | | This book was published in two volumes, of which this is the | | second. The first volume was released as Project Gutenberg ebook | | #40472, available at http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40472 | | | | Numbers enclosed in square brackets, e.g. [1], relate to | | footnotes, which have been placed at the end of the text. | | Numbers enclosed in parentheses, e.g. (1), relate to works | | referred to in the text and listed at the end of this volume. | | | | In the text versions of these two volumes, words in _italics_ | | are enclosed in underscores, +bold+ words are enclosed in plus | | signs, and words in =Gothic script= are enclosed in equal signs. | | Curly brackets are used to represent subscripts, e.g. k{1}. | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ THE HISTORY OF CREATION. [Illustration: Hypothetical Sketch of the Monophyletic Origin of Man.] THE HISTORY OF CREATION: _OR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE EARTH AND ITS INHABITANTS BY THE ACTION OF NATURAL CAUSES._ A POPULAR EXPOSITION OF THE DOCTRINE OF EVOLUTION IN GENERAL, AND OF THAT OF DARWIN, GOETHE, AND LAMARCK IN PARTICULAR. FROM THE GERMAN OF ERNST HAECKEL, PROFESSOR IN THE UNIVERSITY OF JENA. THE TRANSLATION REVISED BY PROFESSOR E. RAY LANKESTER, M.A., F.R.S., FELLOW OF EXETER COLLEGE, OXFORD. _IN TWO VOLUMES._ VOL. II. NEW YORK: D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, 1, 3, AND 5 BOND STREET. 1880. A sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused, Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, And the round ocean, and the living air, And the blue sky, and in the mind of man; A motion and a spirit that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things. In all things, in all natures, in the stars Of azure heaven, the unenduring clouds, In flower and tree, in every pebbly stone That paves the brooks, the stationary rocks, The moving waters and the invisible air. WORDSWORTH. CONTENTS OF VOL. II. CHAPTER XV. PAGE PERIODS OF CREATION AND RECORDS OF CREATION.