8 CREATION OF ANIMALS. 



" Let us make man." He was therefore neither 

 sea-born nor earth-born, as some ancient nations 

 claimed to be, but born of God ; though, as Christ 

 moistened clay when he was about to exercise his 

 creative power, in the re-forming of an eye ;* so 

 was the humid earth used in the creation of the 

 body of man by his Maker, and when that won- 

 derful machine, with its complex apparatus of 

 organs, both external and internal, was finished ; 

 when a throne and presence chamber were pre- 

 pared for the intellectual and spiritual, and govern- 

 ing part of his nature, and that wonder-working 

 pulp the brain, with its silver spinal cord and 

 infinitely divaricated threads, already fitted for 

 the mastery of every motive organ, was in a state 

 to transmit without obstruction, each flux and 

 reflux of that subtile fluid, intermediate, as it 

 were, between matter and spirit, 2 which so in- 

 stantaneously conveys and causes the execution 

 of the commands of the will by every external 

 bodily organ ; when the heart was ready to beat ; 

 the lungs to play; the blood to circulate; and 

 every other system to start for the fulfilment of 

 its prescribed errand. " Then the Lord God 

 breathed into his nostrils the breath of lives, and 

 man became a living soul." He was now installed 

 into his kingdom over the globe which he inha- 

 bited, and dominion was given him over the 



1 John, ix. 6. 2 See Appendix, note 3. 



