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when he is called upon to give some account of the 

 origin and nature of the soul, certainly cannot be said 

 to have been increased by the establishment of the 

 Darwinian theory. For from the earliest days of the 

 Church, ingenious speculation has been lavished on 

 the subject. As to the origin of the individual soul, 

 Tertullian tells us as follows: — De Aninia, ch. xix. — 

 " Anima velut surculus quidam ex matrice Adami in 

 propaginem deducta, et genitalibus semine foveis 

 commodata. Pullulabit tarn intellectu quam et 

 sensu." 



Whilst St. Augustine says : — " Harum autem sen- 

 tentiarum quatuor de anima, utrum de propagine 

 veniant, an in singulis quibusque nascentibus mox 

 fiant, an in corpora nascentium jam alicubi existentes 

 vel mittantur divinitus, vel sua sponte labantur, niillam 

 temere affiinnari oporteret : aut enim nondum ista 

 qusestio a divinorum librorum catholicis tractatoribus, 

 pro merito suae obscuritatis et perplexitatis, evoluta 

 atque illustrata est; aut si jam factum est, nondum 

 in manus nostras hujuscemodi litterse provenerunt." 



