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Genesis, what is the value of language ? And 

 again, I ask, if one may play fast and loose with 

 the story of the Fall as a " type " or " allegory," 

 what becomes of the foundation of Pauline 

 theology ? 



For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrec- 

 tion of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall 

 all be made alive (1 Corinthians xv. 21, 22). 



If Adam may be held to be no more real a 

 personage than Prometheus, and if the story of 

 the Fall is merely an instructive "type," com- 

 parable to the profound Promethean mythus, 

 what value has Paul's dialectic ? 



While, therefore, every right-minded man must 

 sympathise with the efforts of those theologians, 

 who have not been able altogether to close their 

 ears to the still, small, voice of reason, to escape 

 from the fetters which ecclesiasticism has forged ; 

 the melancholy fact remains, that the position 

 they have taken up is hopelessly untenable. It 

 is raked alike by the old-fashioned artillery of the 

 Churches and by the fatal weapons of precision 

 with which the enfants perdus of the advancing 

 forces of science are armed. They must surrender, 

 or fall back into a more sheltered position. And 

 it is possible that they may long find safety in 

 such retreat. 



It is, indeed, probable that the proportional 

 number of those who will distinctly profess their 



