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144 MR. DARWIN’S CRITICS Vv 
‘* Nihilominus sententia Catholica est, verba illa Scriptura 
esse ad literam intelligenda. AC PROINDE VERE, AC REALITER, 
TULISSE DEUM CosTAM ADAM, ET, EX ILLA, corpus Eva 
FORMASSE.” 
Nor is there any escape in the supposition that 
some woman existed before Eve, after the fashion 
of the Lilith of the rabbis; since Suarez qualifies 
that notion, along with some other Judaic 
imaginations, as simply “damnabilis.” ? 
After the perusal of the “ Tractatus de Opere” 
it is, in fact, impossible to admit that Suarez held 
any opinion respecting the origin of species, except 
such as is consistent with the strictest and most 
literal interpretation of the words of Genesis. 
For Suarez, it is Catholic doctrine, that the world 
was made in six natural days. On the first of 
these days the materia prima was made out of 
nothing, to receive afterwards those “substantial — 
forms” which moulded it into the universe of 
things; on the third day, the ancestors of all 
living plants suddenly came into being, full-grown, 
perfect, and possessed of all the properties which 
now distinguish them; while, on the fifth and 
sixth days, the ancestors of all existing animals 
were similarly caused to exist in their complete 
and perfect state, by the infusion of their appro- 
priate material substantial forms into the matter 
1 Tractatus de Opere, Lib. III. ‘‘ De hominis creatione,” cap. 
ii. No. 3. 
2 Ibid. Lib, III. cap. iv. Nos. 8 and 9 
