34 THE IMMORTALITY OF ANIMALS 



up the subject of creation for the purpose of giving 

 the history of the fall of man, the divine writer 

 gives the " generation " or history by repeating the 

 same method, that man and lower animals were 

 formed out of the earth. 



Here, for the first and only time, the particular 

 manner of how life was imparted was given in the case 

 of Adam. The inspired writer says, " God breathed 

 into his nostrils the breath of life ; and man became 

 a living soul." As to what methods were used to 

 impart life to the other animals and to Eve we are 

 not informed. But to say that God used one way 

 for lower animals, one for man and one for woman, 

 when all were made of the same chemical constit- 

 uents, would be contrary to any system of analogy 

 known to reason. Any Bible student knows that 

 there are many things understood which are not 

 expressed throughout the entire Bible, therefore 

 whatever is understood by the words, " breathed 

 into his nostrils the breath of life and man became 

 a living soul," is implied, though it is not expressed, 

 in the creation of all other forms of animal life. 

 No animal could live without the breath of life, and 

 as the divine writer said nothing about the manner 

 of its being imparted, it must be assumed that God 



