LIGHT, LUMINARIES AND LIFE. 199 
consciousness, because we know that He is infinitely greater 
than we are. But we should be wrong not to interpret Him in 
the highest category within our reach, and think of Him as self- 
conscious life.” Add to this Will or Volition, and we get the 
fundamentals of personality. Here perhaps we get nearest to 
the true inwardness of the phrase, “In the image of God,” by 
which the inspired writer of Genesis designates the highest act 
known to us of Creative Thought and Will, where there 
appears the very topstone—the crown and summit of the 
progressive creation, with its “groaning and travailing in pain” 
—in painful effort, which is written upon the whole sentient 
creation, from the first dawn of conscious life on this globe, to 
the present, as the universal law of Redemption through sacrifice 
works itself out.* ¢ 
In what the Bible teaches us of the Adhim (the Man), as 
distinct from the Homo, a race (the presence of which on this 
globe the Genesis cast of the traditions of prehistoric times 
assumes before the appearance of Adam and his progeny) we 
have a differentiation indicated in the general stream of human 
life on this planet. The race of the Adham is endowed with 
those spiritual powers and faculties and capabilities for response 
to spiritual influences, which mark off the “Man” of Scripture 
and philosophy, as a being distinct from Homo sapiens. Along 
with these endowments comes in the crowning intellectual 
gift of language or speech, the essential instrument of that 
evolutionary illumination of the human mind, which is written 
upon the history of recorded thought, from its inception in the 
earliest Sumerian script, or the unknown vocables of Neolithic 
man, to the finished structure of the Greek language as an 
instrument of thought.t+ 
As I said a year or two ago,t in reply to criticisms of a 
previous letter of mine from the pens of Mr. Woods Smyth and 
Dr. Dukinfield Astley, “Somehow and somewhere a_ being 
possessed of higher endowments than those of a mere highly 
intelligent biped does appear on the stage of the world; 
and I think it has yet to be shown that the conception 
of an Adamic race, such as we can form from the Creation story 
of Genesis, clothed in oriental figure and hyperbole, conflicts 
substantially with the evidence that can be drawn from true 
science.” The paragraph is too long to quote here in extenso, 
* St. Paul, Romans viii, 22. 
+ Cf. an interesting article on “ Heredity and Tradition ” in the Times 
of June 22nd, 1910. 
t Guardian, Dec. 23rd, 1908. 
