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have called for such special thought, if we may so express the 
formation of the purposes of the Divine mind. 
7. We are told that the Elohim made man in Ms own image. 
Surely the Professor, whose views have so much affected society, 
must cherish some similar view of the nobility of the nature 
inherited by man when he asserts that* “the bribe of eternity 
itself, were it possible to offer it, could not prevent the human 
mind from closing with the truth.” What is more godlike than 
the love of truth ? But the resemblance does not stop here, for 
man is, by his very being and nature, a king, delighting in 
dominion ; a poet (iroiriTrig), finding a joy in the creations of his 
own mind ; a husbandman, sharing with his Creator in the satis- 
faction of making the earth yield her increase under the control of 
his wisdom ; being permitted also in a vast variety of cases the satis- 
faction of improving for his own benefit the bounteous gifts of God. 
8. All this, and much more, he was originally by creation, and 
not by evolution, if we are to receive the testimony of Scripture. 
He is consequently to be looked upon as a civilized man from the 
outset. He is even a naturalist, having the task assigned to him 
by his Almighty Creator of naming, and that, according to their 
essential qualities, every beast of the field and every fowl of the 
air. It must also be understood, by the account in Genesis, that 
the Creator was pleased with this exercise of the powers which He 
had bestowed upon His creature. 
9. According to this conception of the original constitution of 
man, there can be nothing in science — that is, in knowledge — un- 
friendly to religion, or, in other words, to his relations with that 
Being who gave him power to acquire this knowdedge. All his 
acquaintance with the universe would tend to make him in- 
creasingly admire and adore the Originator of such marvels. 
He is a religious being. Adam, the noble, the unfallen, the 
head of creation, without whom all would seem to have been made 
and ordered without any logical connection or result, is the one 
who is specially appointed to hold communion with his Father in 
heaven. He is the high-priest of the world, and the friend of its 
Almighty Architect. 
10. Fie is in the purpose of God to bo the head of a race to 
whom redemption in the second Adam is about to be promised. 
But how shall this be effected ? He is alone, and no heart beats 
responsive to the emotions which oppress his full soul. Evolution 
can do nothing for his help ; but God still cares for him, and his 
Almighty Friend provides an help-meet for him, and this not in a 
second-rate and copied creature, an Adam of inferior structure, — 
Crystalline and Molecular Forces, by Prof. Tyndall, p. 13. 
