The Interpreters of Genesis And the Interpreters of Nature
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The gloss to which I refer is the assumption that the "air-population"forms a term in the order of progression from lower to higher, fromsimple to complex--the place of which lies between the water-populationbelow and the land-population above--and I speak of it as a "gloss, "because the pentateuchal writer is nowise responsible for it. But it is not true that the air-population, as a whole, is "lower" orless "complex" than the land-population. On the contrary, every beginnerin the study of ani...mal morphology is aware that the organisation of abat, of a bird, or of a pterodactyle presupposes that of a terrestrialquadruped; and that it is intelligible only as an extreme modificationof the organisation of a terrestrial mammal or reptile. In the same waywinged insects (if they are to be counted among the "air-population")presuppose insects which were wingless, and, therefore, as "creepingthings, " were part of the land-population. Thus theory is as muchopposed as observation to the admission that natural science endorsesthe succession of animal life which Mr.
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