300 THE GENESIS OF SPECIES. [Chap. 



tlien have to do with facts not only harmonizing with re- 

 ligion, but, as it were, preaching and proclaiming it. 

 ^ It is not, however, necessary for Christianity that any 

 such view should prevail, Man, according to the old scho- 

 lastic definition, is "a rational animal " (animal rationale)^ 

 and hisjinimidjty^^s^chs^^ 



though inseparably joined, during life, in one common ])(jr- 

 sonality. This animal body must have had a dillerent 

 source from that of tlie spiritual soul which informs it, from 

 the distinctness of the two orders to which those two ex- 

 istences severally belong. 



Scripture seems plainly to indicate this when it says 

 that " God made man from the dust of th6 earth, and 

 breathed into his nostrils the breath of life." This is a plaint 

 and direct statement that man's body was not created in 

 the primary and absolute sense of the word, but was evolved 

 from prei3xisting material (symbolized by the tenn " dust 

 of the earth"), and was therefore only derivatively created, 

 i. e., by the operation of secondary laws. His soid, on the y 

 other hand, was created in quite a dilferent way, not hy any 

 preexisting means, external to God Himself, but by the 

 direct action of the Almighty, symbolized by the term 

 " breathing : " the very form adopted by Christ, when con- 

 ferring the supernatural powers and graces of the Cln-istian 

 dispensation, and a form still daily used in the rites and 

 ceremonies of the Church. 



That the first man should have had this double orijrin 

 agrees with what we now experience. For supposing each 

 human soul to be directly and immediately created, yet 

 each human body is evolved by the ordinary operation of 

 natural physical laws. 



Prof. Flower, in his Introductory Lecture " (p. 20) to 

 liis course of Ilunterian Lectures for 1870, well observes : 

 " Whatever man's place may be, either in or out of Nature, 



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