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they submitted to the premonished condition which resulted 
from partaking of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of 
good and evil, by which they instantly saw that they were 
naked in the flesh ; evidently the real purpose of their crea- 
tion in the garden of Eden, in order to become the true 
source of the peculiar people of God. The events of this 
chapter have been generally believed to be the transgression 
and not the fulfilment of a conditional law, which resulted in 
their expulsion from Eden ; and the few following chapters 
refer to the history of his family and descendants, among some 
of the earlier races of mankind, previously created during 
the sixth geological or pre-Sabbatic period (Gen. i. 27, and 
following verses). 
I have long held these opinions, and am every day more and 
more convinced of their substantial truth. If churchmen were 
more freely and firmly to examine and expound the first 
chapter of Genesis with a sufficient knowledge of physical 
laws, they would not permit the materialists declaring it to 
be a myth from its being opposed to hazy myths of their own 
fanciful imaginations. I also consider that the idea of the 
savage origin of mankind is not applicable to all races as 
regards the definition of Sir John Lubbock, when he speaks 
of “ the first being worthy to be called a man ” ; intimating 
that he was developed from some pre-existing creature not 
worthy to be so called, with evident allusion to the Gorilla 
theory of Professor Huxley. 
However boldly the Archbishop and Sir John, as well as the 
Duke of Argyll, may restrict their investigations to the mere 
demonstrations of science, not necessarily unheeding the mys- 
terious declarations of Scripture, from which the Archbishop 
admits there is no escaping ; the facts remain, however, 
unheeded ; even the more sceptical are tolerably familiar with 
them when they attempt to avoid them as intruding in their 
paths of speculation. 
One thing which, as much as anything, has tended to confuse 
the subject of man’s antiquity and his first appearance on the 
stage, is the restriction of his race to the Edenic source, from 
the Sabbatic Adam and Eve, and the unity of the human race. 
And so strongly prejudiced is the Duke of Argyll “ on the 
unity of the human race, in respect of origin,” that, he says, 
“ it is not easily separated from some principles of high value, 
enabling us to understand moral duty and religious truth. 
And precisely in proportion to our value of the belief in the 
unity of the race, we should be willing to accept the evidence 
of man’s antiquity. The older the human family can be proved 
to be, the more possible and probable it is that it had descended 
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