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faith, he was not to live like the animals. For 

 this purpose a special instruction on the sanctity 

 of the tie was congruous, and this is hinted at in 

 all the stories of the sanctity and happiness of the 

 primitive couple, of their intimacy with the Crea- 

 tor." 8 



Thus the studies of archeology, anthropology, 

 primitive religions and primitive languages all 

 point back to the absolute correctness of the Mo- 

 saic narrative. "He who had issued from the 

 Creator's 'breath' as in Malakka or Celebes 

 he who was so phenomenally conscious that he and 

 his helpmate were one, could not but have heard 

 the words of the same Creator in his sleep, open- 

 ing his side and revealing to him his wife. 'Nin 

 tulang ba-tulang yaka,' we can hear him say: 

 \This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my 

 &esh. J 'She shall be called woman,' Dayang, be- 

 cause she was taken out of man, Daya" 9 



One thing, in fine, is clear and certain, that in 

 every particular the Scripture account is borne out 

 by tradition, history and all the sciences that touch 

 upon the past ages of humanity. Primitive man 

 could not have been a savage, if for no other rea- 

 son than the fact that no savage race was ever 

 known to have evolved itself out of savagery into 

 civilization by its own efforts. Nor, we may be 

 morally certain, could it ever do so. Culture and 



'"Prehistoric Religion," p. 241. 

 Ibid. 



