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along with his manual powers, allowed him to ascer- 

 tain the properties of things, to plan, invent, and 

 apply in a manner impossible to any other creature. 

 His gift of speech enabled him to imitate and reduce 

 to systematic language the sounds of nature, and to 

 connect them with the thoughts arising in his own 

 mind, and thus to express their relations and signifi- 

 cance. Above all, his Maker had breathed into him 

 a spiritual nature akin to His own, whereby he 

 became different from all other animals, and the 

 very shadow and likeness of God; capable of rising 

 to abstractions and general conceptions of truth and 

 goodness, and of holding communion with his Creator. 

 This was man Edenic, the man of the golden age, as 

 sketched in the two short narratives of the earlier 

 part of Genesis, which not only conform to the general 

 traditions of our race on the subject, but bear to any 

 naturalist who will read them in their original dress, 

 internal evidence of being contemporary, or very 

 nearly so, with the state of things to which they 

 relate. 



" And God said, ' Let us make man in our image, after our 

 likeness ; and let them rule over the fish of the sea, and over 

 the birds of the air, and over the herbivora, and over all the 

 land.' And God blessed them, and said unto them, ' Be fruit- 

 ful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it.' 



"And the Lord God formed the man of the dust of the 

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

 man became a living being. And the Lord God planted a 

 garden, eastward in Eden, and there He placed the man whom 

 He had formed. And out of the ground made the Lord God 

 to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for 



