birds, and brings them to the man; and it is only when among all these the man finds no companion, that the last step is taken by the creation of woman. Not much reflection, certainly, could be ascribed to a writer who could think this to be the succession of the acts of creation. But the real state of the case is, that in the second chapter the arrangement is not in the order of time, but by similarity of matter, so that whatever is introduced in elucidation of the progress of the narrative is inserted