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We have searched in vain through Father 

 Wasmann's book for the explanation of this 

 theory of man which is supposed to be in per 

 fect harmony with "Christian philosophy" and 

 " the Christian theory of life," but fail to find 

 it, unless it be in the speculations at the begin 

 ning of his third lecture which lead up to the 

 question just asked and answered. In these 

 speculations he says: 



"Every atom in the human body had its 

 primary origin in a creative act of God at the 

 first formation of matter, although millions of 

 years of cosmic development were to elapse, 

 before it became a part of a human body; and 

 in just the same way, we might imagine a hy 

 pothetical history of humanity, governed by 

 the laws of natural development, which God 

 pressed on the first cells at the moment when 

 life originated." 



Father Wasmann then proceeds to tell us 

 how, "in accordance with this purely specula 

 tive supposition, man would have become man 

 completely only when the organized matter had 

 so far developed through natural causes, as to 

 be capable of being animated with a human 



