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gloss on the old record of Genesis. The state- 

 ment that man was formed from the dust of 

 the ground implifes no more than the produc- 

 tion of his body from the common materials 

 employed in the construction of other animals ; 

 this also in contradistinction from the higher na- 

 ture derived from the inbreathing or inspiration 

 of God. The precise nature of the method by 

 which man was made or created is not stated by 

 the author of Genesis. Further, it would have 

 been as easy for Divine Power to create a pair 

 as an individual. If this was not done, and if 

 after the lesson of superiority taught by the in- 

 spection of lower animals, and the lesson of 

 language taught by naming them, the first man 

 in his " deep sleep " is conscious of the removal 

 of a portion of his own flesh, and then on awak- 

 ing has the woman " brought " to him, all this is 

 to teach a lesson not to be otherwise learned. 

 The Mosaic record is thus perfectly consistent 

 with itself and with its own doctrine of creation 

 by Almighty Power. 



I have quoted the above passages as exam- 

 ples of the more jocose vein of the Jena phys- 

 iologist ; but they constitute also a serious rev- 

 elation of the influence of his philosophy on his 



own mind and heart, in lowering both to a cold, 

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