iv Preface 



Garden of Eden. Removing the act of crea- 

 tion from the Garden of Eden to the germ, 

 and dividing it into small parts so that it 

 will extend over long lines of generations, 

 does not change the essential character of the 

 creation involved. 



To say that human intelligence and those 

 other qualities peculiar to modern animals 

 are the product of growth, is to hide behind 

 words. If one generation has less of these 

 qualities than the preceding generation, that 

 less may be due to something lost or omitted ; 

 but if it has more than preceding generations 

 had, that more means that something has 

 been created which did not previously exist. 

 Animals grow by assimilating food, but no 

 degree of feeding will produce a poet, a 

 statesman, or an inventor. There is a clear 

 distinction between increasing the quantity 

 of a given material in a given place, and 

 evolving in an animal something which had 

 no previous existence. 



To say that these created things are the 

 product of the forces of nature operating 



