444 LESSONS FKOM NATUEE. [CHAP. XIV. 



Now I am not saying anything about the truth of this 

 doctrine, but only that it perfectly harmonizes with the hypo 

 thesis thrown out ; while that it was the doctrine generally 

 held in Suarez s day should be known to every one who writes 

 upon such a subject at all. This agreement between the 

 doctrine and the hypothesis will readily be apprehended, for 

 if Adam was formed in the way of which I suggested the 

 possibility, he would, till the infusion of the rational soul, 

 be only animal vivens et sentiens, and not &quot;homo&quot; at all. 

 But when the rational soul was infused, he thereby, as Suarez 

 justly says, &quot; factus est homo vivens, et consequenter, etiam 

 sentiens.&quot; 



The dictum, &quot; Nulla est in homine forma educta de 

 potentia materiaa,&quot; is nothing to the point, because I never 

 supposed that the &quot; forma rationalis &quot; was in potentia material, 

 but only the &quot; forma sentiens,&quot; which would disappear and 

 become non-existent as soon as the &quot; animal,&quot; by the infused 

 rationality, becomes &quot; homo.&quot; Thus, so far from being incon 

 sistent with my hypothesis, it supports it; for the dictum 

 must have been applied by Suarez to every child, the &quot; forma 

 sentiens &quot; of which he must have allowed to be &quot; educta de 

 potentia material,&quot; although the &quot;forma rationalis &quot; in his 

 doctrine, as in my hypothesis, is directly created by God, 

 and is in no way &quot; educta de potentia materiaB.&quot; Professor 

 Huxley has read Suarez ad hoc, and evidently without the 

 guidance of any one familiar with that author, or with 

 his philosophy, and the natural consequence of writing 

 on such a subject under such circumstances follows of 

 course. 



I think that it must now be plain to all readers, from the 

 passages referred to, that there is perfect freedom for even the 

 very strictest Christians, not only as regards the question of the 

 six days, but also with respect to the full doctrine of Evolution. 



Professor Huxley, indeed, must know well that, in addition 



soivituram- to tlie authority of approved writers of ancient and 



modern times, there is a living authority in the 



Church. That authority, moreover, is ready at any moment 



