15 NOVEMBER 1913, Page 32

GEOLOGICAL DAYS.

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—In your issue of November 1st there is a quotation from Thackeray that " We have God's own word (in His com- mandments) that He made the world in six days, and yet geologists tell us that it took millions of years to make- Quien sabel" This subject offered no difficulty to the page of an Oxford don, who, on asking him if he liked his new place and if the butler was kind to him, received the reply, "I likes my place, sir, but I don't know about the butler. He says the days in Genesis was days of twenty-four hours, and I

knows they was periods."—I am, Sir, Lc., C. Fox.