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various kinds — or substantial forms — of organic 

 life." 



We thus derive the erroneous impression that 

 Suarez should be classed with Augustine and 

 Aquinas as a teacher of creation by evolution; 

 but Huxley in a brilhant article^ completely dis- 

 misses this enrolment with the Evolutionists, and 

 sets him up as a rigid Special Creationist. He 

 was, in fact, the third great theologian to treat 

 of Creation, and yet, as he differed radically in 

 his interpretation of Genesis from both Augus- 

 tine and Aquinas, he may be considered one of 

 the founders of the special-creation view as or- 

 thodox teaching upon the origin of species — the 

 teaching which more than any other has led to 

 the schism among the philosophers of Xature. 

 Mivart quotes a number of passages showing that 

 Suarez gave this matter considerable thought. 

 As was later done by Linnaeus, Suarez pointed 

 out that there might be some new or post-crea- 

 tion species which were generated by the com- 

 mingling of original species; he considered the 

 mule and the leopard as instances of this kind, 



Huxley also shows that Suarez devotes a spe- 

 cial treatise, Tractatus de Opere sex Dierum, to 

 the discussion of all the problems which arise 

 out of the literal Mosaic account of Creation; he 



IT. H. Huxley: Mr. Darwin's Critics. The Contemporary Re- 

 view, 1871. 



