HEREDITY HAS NO POWER, ETC. 97 



endowed with the power to -produce spermatozoa he- 

 fore he is born ; nor could a woman produce ova be- 

 fore her birth ; nor is it possible to endow a fertilized 

 ovum with the power to produce a man or woman be- 

 fore it is formed. When Adam's spermatozoa and 

 Eve's ova were made the men and women to be pro- 

 duced from them had not come into being ; and it was 

 impossible for even the Creator to endow them, at 

 that time, with the power to produc-3 spermatozoa and 

 ova. Intellect, memory, will-power, force and motion 

 were necessary to group the atoms and cells of which 

 the bodies of these new men and women were to be 

 composed, into the necessary chemical combinations 

 and mechanical arrangements in order to construct 

 their bodies. Neither the spermatozoa, the ova nor the 

 germ-cells produced from them, had intellect, mem- 

 ory, will-power nor the necessary force. Therefore 

 it was impossible for Adam's spermatozoa and Eve's 

 ova, or germ-cell, resulting from their fusion, to pro- 

 duce Adain and Eve's children, automatically. 



Secondly. Neither the children of Adam and 

 Eve nor of any other man or woman ever had the 

 power to generate spermatozoa and ova, voluntarily. 

 It is inconceivable that the blind unthinking genital 

 organs of Adam's children or of any other 

 man or woman ever produced spermatozoa and 

 ova spontaneously and automatically. We are 

 compelled to believe that the Creator always 

 generates, guides and controls the forces and motions 

 which assemble and group the atoms into the form of 

 the spermatozoa and ova; and that he directly and 



