CREATION 35 



breathed into the animals and woman, the breath 

 of life and they became living souls. Any other 

 assumption would be illogical. 



In describing the creation of woman, nothing is 

 said about the breath of life or a living soul. Now 

 must we infer that she, like the lower animals, is 

 denied a soul because the special manner of impart- 

 ing life is not mentioned ? And yet if you deny 

 that animals have souls, because the mode in which 

 they received them is not mentioned, you will cer- 

 tainly have to exclude women from having souls 

 upon the same hypothesis, which has been done by 

 some crude forms of religion. The Bible plainly 

 infers that whatever process was involved in bestow- 

 ing the breath of life in the case of Adam was 

 followed w T ith all other created beings. In refer- 

 ence to the flood, the inspired writer in Genesis 

 7 : 21, 22, says : " All flesh died that moved upon 

 the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beasts, 

 and of every creeping thing, and every man, all in 

 whose nostrils w 7 as the breath of life." 



I have so far used the English version in what 

 I have said as to the soul. A few facts from older 

 versions I will now mention in evidence. 



It is acknowledged by all the best Greek and 



