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2631	Huxley, Thomas Henry	Mr. Gladstone and Genesis Essay #5 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition"			.txt	text/plain	9609	375	62	reply, I cannot get away from my original conviction that, if Mr. Gladstone's second proposition can be shown to be not merely inaccurate, but I think it counts for a good deal that Mr. Gladstone appears to have animals, are creeping things in the sense of the pentateuchal writer or Mr. Gladstone speaks of the author of the first chapter of Genesis as that natural science does not "affirm" the statement that birds were "plants, fishes, birds, mammals, and man," which, Mr. Gladstone affirms, And if, in a geological book, Mr. Gladstone finds the quite true statement that plants appeared before in which case mammals (which is what, I suppose, Mr. Gladstone means by far as it deals with matters of fact, may be taken seriously, as meaning speculations of the writer of Genesis; and, as I think that Mr. Gladstone might have been able to put his case with a good deal more	./cache/2631.txt	./txt/2631.txt