140 SPECIAL CREATION 



ever occupied more than one body; unless we believe 

 in the transmigration, metempsychosis or reincarnation 

 of souls ; and this belief is too absurd for serious con- 

 sideration. The child does not take his father's soul 

 nor his mother's, nor is there any reason to suppose 

 that either parent transmits to the child, any part of 

 his or her soul ; nor that either of them transmits any 

 germ of a new soul for it. No man can even imagine 

 a division of himself his ego or self into two or 

 more parts. It follows that each human body has its 

 own soul ; which is separate from and independent of 

 every other soul. 



We cannot believe that the spermatozoon nor the 

 ovum has any soul prior to their fusion into the fer- 

 tilized ovum. We are therefore compelled to infer 

 that the soul comes into existence at the moment this 

 fusion occurs, or shortly afterward. We cannot even 

 imagine that the soul is created by the father, nor by 

 the mother, nor by the body in which it resides; nor 

 by accident nor chance. 



It follows that a new soul must be directly and 

 specially created for each embryo body, if it ever gets 

 one. 



It may be that life is an attribute or property 

 of the soul. If this be true, the creation of the soul 

 would include the creation of life. 



If one believes that he has a soul, separate and 

 apart from his body, as most of us do, he is com- 

 pelled to assume, that it was directly and specially 

 created by Almighty God. 



If we believe that the soul is a special creation, we 



