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the six days were not real days, but meant to indicate order. 

 And I may cite also Cardinal Gousset, Theol. Dogmatique, 

 t. i. p. 103, seq. ; Frayssinous, Defense du Christianisme, conf. 

 Mo'ise, Historien des Temps Primitifs ; Perrone, S. J., Prcelect 

 Theol, vol. i. p. 678 (6dit. Migne, 1842). But it is really 

 needless to speak of writers during the last few years, for 

 books are daily printed at Rome with the permission of 

 authority such as Perrone, just mentioned, also Tongiorgi 

 and Pianciani (Cosmogonia Naturale, p. 24), before referred to. 

 In English we have Cardinal Wiseman's Science and Revealed 

 Religion, Lectures v. and vi., and only last year a similar work 

 was published in London by the Rev. Dr. Gerald MoUoy. 



So much for the question of the six days. But before 

 leaving the subject of Christianity and Evolution, there is yet 

 one more point which it may be well to notice. With respect 

 to the hypothesis I advanced that Adam's body might have 

 been formed by evolution like those of other animals, the 

 soul being subsequently infused, Professor Huxley remarks : — 



* If Suarez is any authority it is not Catholic doctrine. " Nulla 

 est in homine forma educta de potentia materise " is a dictum which is 

 absolutely inconsistent with the doctrine of the natural evolution of 

 any vital manifestation of the human body. Moreover, if man 

 existed as an animal before he was provided with a rational soul, he 

 must, in accordance with the elementary requirements of the philo- 

 sophy in which Mr. Mivart delights, have possessed a distinct sensitive 

 and vegetative soul or souls. Hence, when the " breath of life " was 

 breathed into the manlike animal's nostrils, he must have already 

 been a living and feeling creature. But Suarez particularly discusses 

 this point, and not only rejects Mr. Mivart's view, but *' adopts lan- 

 guage of very theological strength regarding it." * 



Professor Huxley then quotes from Suarez a passage 

 ending * ille enim spiritus, quem Deus spiravit, anima ration- 

 ahs fuit, et per eamdem factus est homo vivens, et 

 CONSEQUENTER, ETiAM SENTiENS,' and a conciliar decree con- 

 denming the assertion of the existence of two souls in man. 



