not comprised under the denomination of "everything that
creepeth upon the ground."

Mr. Gladstone speaks of the author of the first chapter of
Genesis as "the Mosaic writer"; I suppose, therefore, that he
will admit that it is equally proper to speak of the author of
Leviticus as the "Mosaic writer." Whether such a phrase would be
used by any one who had an adequate conception of the assured
results of modern Biblical criticism is another matter; but, at
any rate, it cannot be denied that Leviticus has as much claim
to Mosaic authorship as Genesis. Therefore, if one wants to know
the sense of a phrase used in Genesis, it will be well to see
what Leviticus has to say on the matter. Hence, I commend the
following extract from the eleventh chapter of Leviticus to Mr.
Gladstone's serious attention:--


And these are they which are unclean unto you among the creeping
things that creep upon the earth: the weasel, and the mouse, and
the great lizard after its kind, and the gecko, and the land
crocodile, and the sand-lizard, and the chameleon. These are
they which are unclean to you among all that creep (v. 29-3l).


The merest Sunday-school exegesis therefore suffices to prove
that when the "Mosaic writer" in Genesis i. 24 speaks of
"creeping things," he means to include lizards among them.

This being so, it is agreed, on all hands, that terrestrial
lizards, and other reptiles allied to lizards, occur in the