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as Plato and our modern theorists take woman to be ; but in a 
perfect model of beauty and of grace, in everything contrasted, 
and in every respect the fulness of that which was not found in 
himself. We will not say the complement of what was found 
lacking in Adam, for the creative mind delights in variety, albeit 
this variety is blended into delightful harmony. So we see, in the 
well-arranged Kosruos around us, the robust oak and the fruitful 
vine having each their own proper place in creation, and we know 
that the vine -would be in no wise benefitted by a self-supporting 
stem, nor would the oak be graced by bearing aloft on its branches 
the clusters of the vine. Thus we hold that the mind of the woman 
is equally perfect with the mind of the man, but perfectly different. 
No amount of education will obliterate this essential difference ; 
and no theories of our modern scientists to the contrary will do 
other than introduce mischief into the hive of the commonwealth. 
When we read the noble poem of the German Schiller on the 
praises of woman, we see that we are not alone in believing that 
woman is the great civilizer. Woman’s love of what is decorous 
and beautiful supplements well man’s love of truth, and his 
admiration of practical wisdom. Yes, woman in her right place is 
the great civilizing power ; but alas for civilization if she should 
adopt the theories objected to. 
11. The conception that we are taught to entertain as to the 
genesis of man brings before us at once the nobility of his original 
and his association with all that is lowly in creation. The Lord 
God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his 
nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul. “ The 
Adam’’* is elaborated “dust of the [adamah] ground,” t but 
after the breath of lives { [natural and spiritual ?] has been breathed 
into his nostrils, this clod of the valley becomes a living soul. This 
is the contrast, and in our opinion a satisfactory contrast, to the 
opposing doctrine summed up in one line by Lucretius : — 
Nullam rem ex nihilo gigni divinitus unquam,§ 
which denies alike creation and evolution. It is also the declara- 
tion of his being a person, and not a mere congeries of -archi- 
tectural and sentient atoms. 
12. It seems inevitable that I should here take up briefly the 
discussion of the conception of the existence of a pre- Adamite race , 
and the relation of Genesis to modern theories of the duration of 
the period of man’s existence on the earth. 
13. In the first place, then, I object to the notion of a pre- 
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§ Dc Rerum Naturd, lib. i. 151. 
