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* Propositio I. Audaciae potius et fidentise vitio, quam doctrinse 

 laude debent notari, qui maledico dente carpunt Augustianam de 

 simidtanea creatioue sententiam. 



' Propositio II. Augustini de simultanea creatione sententia non 

 solum ab omni animadversione im munis est, verum etiam probabilis et 

 'prope certa.'' 



And in n. 9 he says : — 



* Quare in distributione operum Dei omnia quidem spectant ad 

 illos dies invisibiles in quibus creavit omnia simul, videlicet ad 

 diversas cognitiones angelorum ; sed plura, hoc est, quae primum in 

 rationibus seminalibus, deinde visibiliter facta sunt si accipiantur 

 secundum priorem conditionem, pertinent ad dies intelligibiles, et unico 

 momento fuerunt et ipsa producta ; si vero inspiciantur, ut in propria 

 forma aspectabili constitutae, istorum creatio perficitur in tempore, et 

 post sex illos dies invisibiles ; spectatque ad dies naturales in quibus 

 Deus operatur quotidie, quidquid ex illis tanquam involucris primor- 

 dialibus in tempore evolvitur. Sed legite S. Patrem Lit. v. de Gen. 

 ad lit.' 



But now, coming down to our own day, tlie same complete 

 refutation of Professor Huxley's position is most easily 

 effected. 



Father Pianciani, a Jesuit, was president of the College of 

 Philosophy in the Roman University. His work, Cos- 

 mogonia Naturale Coniparata at Genes., was published at Rome 

 in 1862, at the press of the 'Civilta Catholica.' Professor 

 Huxley will hardly dispute as to his orthodoxy. This author, 

 in his Historia Greationis Mosaicce (published at Naples as 

 long ago as 1851), p. 29, shows that the whole of the first 

 chapter of Genesis must be read as a most sublime and 

 magnificent poetical description. Concerning St. Augustin's 

 special view, he tells us (p. 15), ' Ejus doctrina ad hsec capita 

 revocatur ' : — 



' P Omnia simul a Deo fuisse producta : 2^ Cum ipsa ita disponi 

 queant, ut infimum gradum materia elementaris, supremum puri 

 spiritus occupent, interjectos et medios tum mixta, seu chimica com- 

 posita, tum corpora physice composita, ut saxa, tum prsecipue corpora 



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