All, then, that I consider myself responsible for is summed up in these sentences:--

I. The conclusions. .h.i.therto received have been but inferences deduced from certain premises: the witness who reveals the premises does _not_ testify to the inferences.

II. The process of deducing the inferences has been liable to a vast incoming of error, arising from the operation of a _Law_, proved to exist, but hitherto unrecognised.

III. The amount of the error thus produced we have no means of knowing; much less of eliminating it.

IV. The whole of the facts deposed to by this witness are irrelevant to the question; and the witness is, therefore, out of court.

V. The field is left clear and undisputed for the one Witness on the opposite side, whose testimony is as follows:--

"IN SIX DAYS JEHOVAH MADE HEAVEN AND EARTH, THE SEA, AND ALL THAT IN THEM IS."