282 TOE GENESIS OF SPECIES. [Chap. 



And again : " Ista quippe originaliter ac primordialiter 

 in quadam textura elemeutorum cuncta jam creata sunt ; sed 

 acceptis opportunitatibus prodeunt." " 



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

 quotes witli 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 ])rinui institutione natune 

 non quiuritur niiraculum, sed quid natura reruni habeat, ut 

 Augustinus dicit." " 



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

 tion tliat the kinds were created only derivatively, '''' potentl' 

 aliter tantumy " 



Also he says : " In prima aiitem rerum institutione fuit 

 principium activaam verbum Dei, quod de materia elementari 

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

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



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

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

 dam posuerunt non incipere per actionem naturai sed prius 

 in materia exstitisse, ponentcs latitat ionem formarum. Et 

 hoc accidit eis ex ignorantia materia^, quia nesciebant distin- 

 guere inter potentiam et actum. Quia enim forniie pra^ex- 

 istunt eas sim})liciter pncexistere." "* 



Also Cornelius A Lapide " contends that at least certain 

 animals were not absolutely, but only derivatively created, 

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

 tiaUter." 



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

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



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



'* St. Thomas, Smiiraa, i., quest. 67, art. 4, ad 3. 



2^ Pi-imte I'aitis, vol. ii., quest. 74, art. 2. 



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



2' Lib. cit., quest. 45, art. 8. 



•^ Vide In (jienesim Commeut., cap. i. 



