348 EVOLUTION AND DOGMA. 



This is, not, however, the place to discuss in de- 

 tail the divers theories above referred to respect- 

 ing the origin of the human soul, nor to refute the 

 errors which these theories contain. It will suffice 

 for our present purpose to state, that corporeal Tra- 

 ducianism, as well as the opinion of Origen, have been 

 condemned as contrary to faith. As to spiritual 

 Traducianism, as favored by Rosmini, Klee and 

 Ubaghs, it will be sufficient to say that while it is 

 not heresy, no one can now defend it without justly 

 being regarded as temerarious. 



I have said that Creationism has never been form- 

 ally defined as a dogma of faith, but it can most 

 probably be regarded as implicitly defined, and pos- 

 sessing all the conditions necessary to its being con- 

 sidered as one of those truths which constitute a 

 part of revealed doctrine, and a portion, therefore, 

 of the original deposit of the Christian faith. Dur- 

 ing the time of St. Augustine, owing to the Pelagian 



que les ames qui seront un jour ames humaines, ont e^e" dans 

 les semences et dans les ancetres jusqu'a Adam, et ont existe 

 par consequent, depuis le commencement des choses, toujours 

 dans une maniere de corps organise*." In his "Anthropo- 

 logia," lib. IV, cap. v, Rosmini writes : " Unde in generatione 

 individui speciei humanae concurrunt dux causre simul operantes, 

 homo generatione et Deus manifestatione suse lucis ; homo ponit 

 animal, Deus creat animam intelligentem in eodem instanti 

 quo animal humanum ponitur, creat animam earn illuminando 

 splendore vultus sui, ipsi participando aliquid sui, ens ideale, quod 

 est lumen creaturarum intelligentium." Froschammer, in his 

 " Defensio Generationis Anime," attributes to parents the 

 power of creating the souls of their children, for says he : " Gen- 

 eratione parentum homo secundum corpus et animam oritur vi 

 potestatis creandi secundarise, qua? naturae humane immanens 

 et in prima rerum origine a Deo collata est. . . . Itaque 

 generatio est actus creationis naturae humame, est creatio ex 

 nihilo, per potentiam secundariam a Deo humanitati colla- 

 tam." 



