familiar. To the objection that in the first chapter of
Genesis fowls are represented to have been made from water, and in the second from the ground, "Johannes Lanus" replies that the fowls in the first chapter are
only water-fowl. When he deals with the difficulty of suppling the Israelites in the wilderness with wood and water, he suggests, first, that the country then was woody and well watered ; or, if that is incredible, that these necessaries were miraculously supplied. Either a miracle is to be supposed where the text gives no hint of miracle, or else the inspired writers were inspired to leave out circumstances necessary for
the comprehension of their narrative. For the style, we will simply say that the author has endeavoured to "realize, in an objective and palpable presence, the poetic creations of the imaginative faculty in its alliance with the higher reason."
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