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one race of “rational animals’—the descendants of “Adam, the first 
man.” But if another race of rational animals may be found and yet 
the Bible not be contradicted, why should the Bible he held to contra- 
dict Pre-Adamite man? Why should Post-Adamite man, or another 
race of rational animals on this planet, or in other worlds, be less contra- 
dictory of the Bible than Pre-Adamite man? The Bible speaks of 
neither one nor the other. Why should Saturnite man be less contra- 
dictory than Pre-Adamite man—seeing the Bible is equally silent as to 
both? Tt tells us no more whether there are men in the other worlds, 
than whether there were other men on this earth before Adam. Ask 
the Bible, Are the stars inhabited? It answers not. Ask the Bible, 
Were there any Pre-Adamite men? Still it answers not. It tells of 
“Adam, the first man,” and of “the Lord from heaven, the second man,” 
although twenty-seven generations of Adamites intervened between the 
‘first’? man and the “second.” Strangely, too, in this connection ap- 
pears the fact that the same formula of words addressed to Noah after 
the flood was addressed to Adam: ‘“‘And God blessed Noah and his 
sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the 
earth.” Gen. ix. 1. “And God blessed them [Adam and Eve], and 
God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.” 
Gen. i. 28. 
Supposing, therefore, that according to the Scriptures, Adam was the 
first man, I used Adam and first man as interchangeable terms. Of 
course every one knows that ‘first’? means “first” (Potter's Dwarris), 
but the question will recur, What does “first”? mean? Perhaps the 
Doctor had better first settle what “first” means, befure he launches out 
into another untried sea of speculation, or engages in another tilt with 
scientists. To aid him in this investigation let us look at some inspired 
usages of the term: “First day’—Gen. i. 5, although, according to 
the well-established science of geology, there were millions of days which 
had preceded this “first day.” “For your fellowship in the gospel from 
the first day until now”—Philipp. i. 5, although, doubtless, many days, 
years, and centuries had passed before that ‘first day.” ‘(And he called 
the name of the first, Jemima’—Job xlii. 14, although she was only 
Job's first daughter of the second set of ten children. “That Christ 
should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the 
dead” —Acts xxvi. 23, although many (Lazarus and others) had already 
risen from the dead. “First covenant,—testament,—tabernacle’— 
Heb. viii. 7; ix. 1, 2, 6, 8, 15,18; x. 9. Yet there had been many 
tabernacles erected before that ‘first tabernacle” in the wilderness. So, 
