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from our knowledge of their existing representatives, and to see that 
there is but one intelligent plan of creation throughout the whole/'’ 
And so it is with the inferior animals, as Hugh Miller, long ago 
pointed out, in his Footprints of the Creator. I conclude from 
analogy, therefore, that so it was also with man. 
47. But how would the first man be endowed, according to this 
analogy ? I reply, First , with the knowledge of God, for without 
it his existence would have been merely a puzzle. Second , with 
wisdom and understanding, or a rational mind of the highest con- 
ceivable powers, for man is a reasonable being. Third, I venture 
to think he would also be endowed with a gift of natural language, 
by which to think and speak. I quite admit that this is supposing 
that what I have called “natural language" was given toman 
supernaturally. But so was his very being. Creation is neces- 
sarily supernatural. Things properly are only “ natural ” after 
they and their nature exist. But a gift of this kind, suitable to a 
new-created, perfect, and reasonable man, appears to me to be a 
necessity for his nature ; and, after all, it is in strict analogy with 
the endowments of the inferior animals. They are supernaturally 
endowed with natural instincts. I say supernaturally endowed, 
because their instincts are not acquired by any natural process, or by 
teaching or education. They are literally supernatural gifts. 
48. Now, take this hypothesis as regards man's creation and his 
primitive condition ; and suppose that male and female were 
created, thus perfect and thus endowed ; and we have then an 
intelligible first proposition by which we can understand the whole 
future history of the human race. Without it, all is dark, unin- 
telligible, and irrational. Man as an infant could not be naturally 
without human parents. If so created, as an infant, he could not 
have lived ; or even were that possible, could only have lived un- 
taught, ignorant, dumb, — unless we further suppose there had been 
a series of supernatural methods of nursing, training, and teaching 
him. Of course the grown man could not have been naturally 
either, unless he had first been a child. But, in fact, there is less 
of supernaturalism, less of the miraculous, in supposing him to 
have been created as a man, than as an infant. It appears to me 
the only rational supposition. I am therefore constrained to believe 
it ; just as I am to believe in the existence of God, because it is 
impossible to believe that the things which appear around us exist 
without a Cause which is unseen. 
49. But man is not now thus perfect, as we have assumed him to 
have been originally. And does this not destroy our argument and 
analogy ? Not at all. We have other analogies and facts as to our 
nature and history to appeal to. We have plenty of instances of men 
once comparatively elevated sinking into degradation through vice, 
intemperance and other evil lusts. And though men may deny the 
