ANTAEUS THE GIANT. (503 



ness of both body and soul is the indefeasible birthright 

 of his being, and cannot be stolen from him by hollow de- 

 lusions of sin. All has been heralded by the sublimity of 

 the laws of his genesis ; all foretold by the grandeur of his 

 birth. The perfected splendor of material nature, the pro- 

 duction of his body alone, seems to have exhausted ante- 

 cedent worlds ; and when the celestial flames of an immortal 

 spirit burned upon the humble altar of his clay, and thought, 

 love, conscienciousness, devotion, and truth were added to 

 the miracle of organization, and the cell was arrayed with 

 the halo of strength and the spells of beauty, the end had 

 surely come, " and God saw everything that he had made, 

 and behold, it was very good." 



" The first creation of the organic took place where the 

 first mountain summits projected out of the water; and 

 thus, indeed, without doubt, in India, (?) if the Himalaya* 

 be the highest mountain. 



" The first organic forms, whether plant or animal, em- 

 erged from the shallow parts of the sea. 



" It is possible that man has only originated on one spot, 

 and that indeed on the highest mountain. 



"It is even possible, that only one favorable moment was 

 granted, in which men could arise. 



" The first men were the littoral and mountainous inhabit- 

 ants of warmer countries, and found, therefore, at once, rep- 

 tiles, fishes, fruit, and game, for food."f 



In the scientific genealogy of things, the mountainous 

 summits must have been the first shores in the universal 

 waters, and consequently the first organic life-theatres, and 

 this because the sun first kissed, dawn first bathed, the 

 mountain heights, (poetical, divine genesis of life !)J and the 

 imponderable broke the deep slumber of the ponderable, 



* Dwalagiri, 28,000 feet; Kunchinginga, 28,173 feet. 



f Organogeny, L. O. 



J The sether imparts the substance, the heat the form, the light 

 the life. (Oken first started this opinion in his work, " Die Zeugung," 

 Frankfurt, Wesche, 1805.) 



