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which had already been created. Finally, on the 

 sixth day, the anima rationalis that rational and 

 immortal substantial form which is peculiar to 

 man was created out of nothing, and " breathed 

 into " a mass of matter which, till then, was rn^re 

 dust of the earth, and so man arose. But the 

 species man was represented by a solitary male 

 individual, until the Creator took out one of his 

 ribs and fashioned it into a female. 



This is the view of the " Genesis of Species " 

 held by Suarez to be the only one consistent with 

 Catholic faith : it is because he holds this view to 

 be Catholic that he does not hesitate to declare 

 St. Augustin unsound, and St. Thomas Aquinas 

 guilty of weakness, when the one swerved from 

 this view and the other tolerated the deviation. 

 And, until responsible Catholic authority say, 

 for example, the Archbishop of Westminster 

 formally declares that Suarez was wrong, and 

 that Catholic priests are free to teach their flocks 

 that the world was not made in six natural days, 

 and that plants and animals were not created in 

 their perfect and complete state, but have been 

 evolved by natural processes through long ages 

 from certain germs in which they were potentially 

 contained, I, for one, shall feel bound to believe 

 that the doctrines of Suarez are the only ones 

 which are sanctioned by Infallible Authority, as 

 represented by the Holy Father and the Catholic 

 Church. 



