21 8 EVOLUTION AND SOCIAL PROGRESS 



abound for them in hardships and sufferings, and 

 that, after much labor, might at times yield but 

 a scanty sustenance. The first fall from grace im- 

 plied the loss of many privileges, although there 

 was given even then the hope in the Redeemer, 

 and the possibility of turning all human sufferings 

 into sources of merit, so that in time to come the 

 Church might sing: "Oh, happy fault of Adam, 

 which has given us a Saviour!" All this may be 

 unintelligible to the materialistic evolutionist, and 

 we are sorry for him, but not a line of this ac- 

 count fails to stand in full conformity with the 

 scientific evidence that either he or we can claim 

 to possess. 



That Adam may, for a time at all events, have 

 probably lived the life of a cave man is not 

 startling. It is the only thing we might expect. 

 Clothed in the garments of skin, with the sentence 

 of God upon them, the first man and woman now 

 of necessity felt the consequence of sin. Whither 

 could they turn, except to some hospitable cave 

 which might afford them shelter from the storm 

 that shook the ancient oaks above them, or from 

 the cold dews and the chill frosts of night. 



Had Adam been gifted with all the genius of 

 a Newton and a Shakespeare combined and it 

 is not in the least impossible that such was the 

 case yet the vast possibilities of bronze and iron 

 would still have been hidden from him except 

 for a Divine revelation. In calling attention to 



