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made to agree with a belief in the evolution of 
ving beings only by the supposition that the 
plants and animals, which are said to have been 
- ereated on the third, fifth, and sixth days, were 
_ merely the primordial forms, or rudiments, out of 
vhich existing plants and animals have been 
p EMclved . so that, on these days, plants and 
animals were not created actually, but only 
potentially. 
_ The latter view is that held by Mr. Mivart, who 
| St. Augustin, and implies that he has the 
sanction of Suarez. But, in point of fact, the 
latter great light of orthodoxy takes no small 
pains to give the most explicit and direct contra- 
diction to all such imaginations, as the following 
_ passages prove. In the first place, as regards 
plants, Suarez discusses the problem :— 
**Quomodo herba virens et coetera vegetabilia hoc [tertio] die 
Suerint producta.} 
_ ** Precipua enim difficultas hic est, quam attingit Div. Thomas 
1, par. qu. 69, art. 2, an hee productio plantarum hoc die facta 
intelligenda sit de productione ipsarum in proprio esse actuali et 
formali (ut sic rem explicerem) vel de productione tantum in 
 Semine et in potentia. Nam Divus Augustinus libro quinto Genes. 
ad liter. cap. 4 et 5 et libro 8, cap. 3, posteriorem partem tradit, 
dicens, terram in hoc die accepisse virtutem germinandi omnia 
_ Yegetabilia quasi concepto omnium illorum semine, non tamen 
_ Statim vegetabilia omnia produxisse. Quod primo suadet verbis 
__ illis capitis secundi. In die quo fecit Deus celum et terram et 
Se 
Loc. cit. Lib. II. cap. vii. et viii. 1, 32, 35. 
