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that room is left for the idea of a material 

 process. "Out of the dust of . the ground;" 

 that is, out of the ordinary elements of Na- 

 ture, was that Body formed which is still up- 

 held and perpetuated by organic forces acting 

 under the rules of Law. Nothing which Science 

 has discovered, or can discover, is capable of 

 traversing that simple narrative. On this subject 

 M. Guizot lays great stress, as many others do, 

 on what he calls the Supernatural in Creation, 

 as distinguished from the operations now visible 

 in Nature. " De quelle facon et par quelle puis- 

 sance le genre humain a-t-il commence* sur la 

 terre?" In reply to this question, he proceeds to 

 argue that Man must have been the result either 

 of mere material forces, or of a supernatural 

 power exterior to, and superior to matter. Spon- 

 taneous generation, he argues, supposing it to 

 exist at all, can give birth only to infant beings 

 — to the first hours, and feeblest forms of nascent 

 life. But Man — the human pair — must evidently 

 have been complete from the first ; created in 

 the full possession of their powers and faculties. 

 " C'est 2. cette condition seulement qu'en appa- 



