306 THE REV. H. J. CLARKE ON DEONTOLOGY. 
tion I have used a word which, for those who read these remarks, 
will, I trust, obviate any possible misapprehension of the meaning 
of the term evolve as applied by me to the sense of duty. In 
accounting for the first manifestation of this sense in human beings, 
what I have asserted is, not that it was generated by the conscious- 
ness of sin, but that it was awakened by the perception of a divine 
commandment, that incipience in moral activity, thereby brought 
about, not only preceded their transgression but rendered it 
possible, and that accordingly the tree of whose fruit they ate was 
to them from the first the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and 
Evil. 
