CHAPTER XVIII 



OUR FIRST PARENTS 



THE first man was not a savage. This is 

 scientifically clear from all the evidence 

 we have already given. Only the pre- 

 conceptions of materialistic evolutionary theories 

 could ever have led to a contrary conclusion. 

 The argument of history is as plainly against it 

 as the words of the Sacred Scripture. The most 

 that evolutionists might claim is ignorance of the 

 real origin of man. In which case they would 

 have the Scripture account to accept or nothing. 

 Yet in saying that primitive man was certainly 

 not a savage, which we shall still more fully sub- 

 stantiate, we do not by any means wish to imply 

 in his case even the beginning of an advanced 

 stage of material civilization. The helplessness 

 of the first human pair after their fall could not 

 be better expressed than in the Scripture state- 

 ment that a Divine intervention was needed mer- 

 cifully to furnish them even with their necessary 

 and befitting garments. They were going out to 

 face the inclemencies of an earth that was to 

 bring forth thorns and thistles, that was to 

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