326 THE GENESIS OF SPECIES. [Chap. 



That the first man sliouhl have had this double origin 

 agrees with what we now experience. For supposing each 

 human soul to be directly and immediately created, yet 

 each liuman body is evolved by the ordinary operation of 

 natural physical laws. 



Professor Plower, in his Introductory Lecture^ (p. 20) 

 to lii.s course of Hunterian Lectures for 1870, observes : 

 *' \Miatever man's place may be either in or out of nature, 

 whatever hopes or fears or feelings about himself or his 

 race he may have, we all of us admit tliat these are quite 

 uninfluenced by our knowledge of the fact that each indi- 

 vidual man comes into the world by the ordinary processes 

 of generation, according to the same laws which apply 

 to the development of all organic beings whatever ; that 

 every part of him which can come under the scrutiny of 

 the anatomist or naturalist has been evolved according 

 to these regular laws IVom a simple minute ovum, indis- 

 tinguishable to our senses from that of any of the inferior 

 animals. If this be so — if man is wliat he is, notwitli- 

 standing the corporeal mode of origin of the individual man, 

 so he will assuredly be neither less nor more than man, 

 whatever may be shown regarding the corporeal origin 

 of the whole race, whether tliis was from tlie dust of 

 the earth, or by the modification of some pre-existing 

 animal form." 



!Man is indeed compound, in him two distinct orders of 

 being impinge and mingle ; and with this composite nature 



rational, after he was made corporeal. ' The Lord God formed man of the 

 dust of the *^round, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and 

 man became a living soul' (Gen. ii. 7). Here are two acts on the part of 

 the Creator — the forming the dust, and the ])reathing the life." (See 

 Sennons licaring on Subjects of the Day, by John Henry Newman, D.D. ; 

 New Ktlition. Rivingtons, 1869. Sermon viii/p. 101.) 

 ^ Publiiihed by John ChurchUL 



