282 THE GENESIS OF SPECIES. [CHAP. 



And again : " Ista quippe originaliter ac primordialiter 

 in quadam textura elementorum cuncta jam creata sunt ; sed 

 acceptis opportunitatibus prodeunt." 27 



St. Thomas Aquinas, as was said in the first chapter, 

 quotes with approval the saying of St. Augustine, that in 

 the first institution of Nature we do not look for Miracles, 

 but for the laws of Nature : " In prima institutione natures 

 non quaeritur miraculum, sed quid natura rerum habeat, ut 

 Augustinus dicit." 28 



Again, he quotes with approval St. Augustine's asser- 

 tion that the kinds were created only derivatively, " potenti- 

 aliter tantum" 29 



Also he says : " In prima autem rerum institutione fuit 

 principium activum verbum Dei, quod de materia elementari 

 produxit animalia, vel in actua vel virtute, secundum Aug. 

 lib. 5 de Gen. ad lit. c. 5." 80 



Speaking of " kinds " (in scholastic phraseology " sub- 

 stantial forms") latent in matter, he says: "Quas qui- 

 dam posuerunt non incipere per actionem naturae sed prius 

 in materia exstitisse, ponentes latitationem formarum. Et 

 hoc accidit eis ex ignorantia materiae, quia nesciebant distin- 

 guere inter potentiam et actum. Quia enim formaa praeex- 

 istunt eas simpliciter praeexistere." 31 



Also Cornelius a Lapide 32 contends that at least certain 

 animals were not absolutely, but only derivatively created, 

 saying of them, " Non fuerunt creata formaliter, sed poten- 

 tialiter." 



As to Suarez, it will be enough to refer to Disp. xv. 

 2, n. 9, p. 508, t. i. Edition Vives, Paris; also Nos. 13-15, 



27 Lib. cit., cap. ix., No. 16. 



28 St. Thomas, Summa, i., quest. 67, art. 4, ad 3. 



29 Primae Partis, vol. ii., quest. 74, art. 2. 



30 Lib. cit., quest. 71, art. 1. 

 81 Lib. cit, quest. 45, art. 8. 



52 Vide In Genesim Comment., cap. i. 



