MI:. QLADBTONS AND GENESIS 



..f tlu- li.-ld. The -i cation of living beings begins with that of 

 a solitary man ; tin- next tiling that happens is the laying out 

 <>f the CJarden of Kd-n, and the causing the growth from its soil 

 i y tivr "that is pleasant to the sight and good for food " ; 

 the third act is the formation out of the ground of "every 1>< n>i 

 <tf the field, and every fowl of the air" ; the fourth and last, 

 the mannfai'tnre of the first woman from a rib, extracted from 

 Adam, while in a state of anesthesia. 



Yi-t there arc people who not only profess to take this 

 us li'^i-nd seriously, but who declare it to be reconcil 

 able with the Elohistic account of the creation ! 



