326 THE GENESIS OF SPECIES. [CHAP. 



That the first man should have had this double origin 

 agrees with what we now experience. For supposing each 

 human soul to be directly and immediately created, yet 

 each human body is evolved by the ordinary operation of 

 natural physical laws. 



Professor Flower, in his Introductory Lecture 1 (p. 20) 

 to his course of Hunterian Lectures for 1870, observes : 

 " Whatever man's place may be either in or out of nature, 

 whatever hopes or fears or feelings about himself or his 

 race he may have, we all of us admit that these are quite 

 uninfluenced by our knowledge of the fact that each indi- 

 vidual man comes into the world by the ordinary processes 

 of generation, according to the same laws which apply 

 to the development of all organic beings whatever ; that 

 every part of him which can come under the scrutiny of 

 the anatomist or naturalist has been evolved according 

 to these regular laws from a simple minute ovum, indis- 

 tinguishable to our senses from that of any of the inferior 

 animals. If this be so if man is what he is, notwith- 

 standing the corporeal mode of origin of the individual man, 

 so he will assuredly be neither less nor more than man, 

 whatever may be shown regarding the corporeal origin 

 of the whole race, whether this was from the dust of 

 the earth, or by the modification of some pre-existing 

 animal form." 



Man is indeed compound, in him two distinct orders of 

 being impinge and mingle ; and with this composite nature 



rational, after he was made corporeal. ' The Lord God formed man of the 

 dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and 

 man became a living soul' (Gen. ii. 7). Here are two acts on the part of 

 the Creator the forming the dust, and the breathing the life." (See 

 Sermons bearing on Subjects of the Day, by John Henry Newman, D.D. ; 

 New Edition. Kivingtons, 1869. Sermon viii/p. 101.) 

 1 Published by John Churchill. 



