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methods in which new organisms may be, and, according 

 to it, have been, introduced by the Creator. The first is 

 that of immediate and direct creation, as when God cre- 

 ated the great Tanninim, (whales.) The second is that 

 of mediate creation, through the materials previously 

 existing, as when he said, ' Let the land bring forth 

 plants,' or ' Let the waters bring forth animals.' The 

 third is that of production from a previous organism by 

 power other than that of ordinary reproduction, as in 

 the origination of Eve from Adam, and the miraculous 

 conception of Jesus." P. 229. 



t4 The Bible indicates some ways in which living creat- 

 ures may be modified, or changed into new species, or 

 may give rise to new forms of life. The human body is, 

 we are told, capable of transformation into a new or spir- 

 itual body, different in many important respects, and the 

 future general prevalence of this change is an article of 

 religious faith. The Bible represents the woman as pro- 

 duced from the man by a species of fission, not known 

 to us as a natural possibility, except in some of the lower 

 forms of life. The birth of the Saviour is represented as 

 having been by partheno-genesis, and if it had pleased 

 God that Jesus was to remain on earth as the progenitor 

 of a new and higher type of man to replace that now ex- 

 isting, this might be regarded as the introduction of a 

 new species." P. 378. 



It certainly disarms skepticism and strengthens the 

 probability of Bible history, to find such analogies be- 

 tween the natural world and the record of revelation. 



Living beings are not fortuitous nor necessary group- 

 ings of atoms, either mechanical, as Monism teaches, 01 



