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which had already been created. Finally, on the 
sixth day, the anima rationalis—that rational and 
_ immortal substantial form which is peculiar to 
_ Mman—was created out of nothing, and “ breathed 
- into” a mass of matter which, till then, was mere 
‘dust of the earth, and so man arose. But the 
species man was represented by a solitary male 
individual, until the Creator took out one of his 
tibs and fashioned it into a female. 
This is the view of the “ Genesis of Species” 
held by Suarez to be the only one consistent with 
_ Catholic faith: it is because he holds this view to 
be Catholic that he does not hesitate to declare 
St. Augustin unsound, and St. Thomas Aquinas 
guilty of weakness, when the one swerved from 
- this view and the other tolerated the deviation. 
And, until responsible Catholic authority—say, 
for example, the Archbishop of Westminster— 
formally declares that Suarez was wrong, and 
that Catholic priests are free to teach their flocks 
that the world was not made in six natural days, 
and that plants and animals were noé created in 
their perfect and complete state, but have been 
evolved by natural processes through long ages 
| from certain germs in which they were potentially 
contained, I, for one, shall feel bound to believe 
_ that the doctrines of Suarez are the only ones 
which are sanctioned by Infallible Authority, as 
- Yepresented by the Holy Father and the Catholic 
Church. 
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