Now, as the inferior animals were all in being before man, there was language upon earth long ere the history of our race commenced. The only additio… - Robert Chambers

The first chapter of the Mosaic record is not only not in harmony with the ordinary ideas of mankind respecting cosmical and organic creation, but is opposed to them, and only in accordance with the views here taken. When we carefully peruse it with awakened minds, we find that all the procedure is represented primarily and pre-eminently as flowing from commands and expressions of will, not from direct acts. ...Thus the scriptural objection quickly vanishes, and the prevalent ideas about the organic creation appear only as a mistaken inference from the text, formed at a time when man's ignorance prevented him from drawing therefrom a just conclusion.

The limbs of all the vertebrate animals are, in like manner, on one plan, however various they may appear.

It appears from this inquiry that color and other physiological characters are of a more superficial and accidental nature than was at one time supposed.