(_a_) It seems best to accord with Scripture, which represents God as creating the species in Adam (Gen. 1:27), and as increasing and perpetuating it through secondary agencies (1:28; _cf._ 22). Only once is breathed into man’s nostrils the breath of life (2:7, _cf._ 22; 1 Cor. 11:8. Gen. 4:1; 5:3; 46:26; _cf._ Acts 17:21-26; Heb. 7:10), and after man’s formation God ceases from his work of creation (Gen. 2:2). _Gen. 1:27_—“_And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him: male and female created he them_”; _28_—“_And God blessed them: and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth_”; _cf._ _22_—of the brute creation: “_And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth._” _Gen. 2:7_—“_And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul_”; _cf._ _22_—“_and the rib which Jehovah God had taken from the man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man_”; _1 Cor. 11:8_—“_For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man_” (ἐξ ἀνδρός). _Gen. 4:1_—“_Eve ... bare Cain_”; _5:3_—“_Adam ... begat a son ... Seth_”; _46:26_—“_All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, that came out of his loins_”; _Acts 17:26_—“_he made of one_ [“father” or “body”] _every nation of men_”; _Heb. 7:10_—Levi “_was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedek met him_”; _Gen. 2:2_—“_And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had made, __ and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made._” Shedd, Dogm. Theol., 2:19-29, adduces also _John 1:13; 3:6_; _Rom. 1:13; 5:12_; _1 Cor. 15:22_; _Eph. 2:3_; _Heb. 12:9_; _Ps. 139:15, 16_. Only Adam had the right to be a creatianist. Westcott, Com. on Hebrews, 114—“Levi paying tithes in Abraham implies that descendants are included in the ancestor so far that his acts have force for them. Physically, at least, the dead so rule the living. The individual is not a completely self-centred being. He is member in a body. So far traducianism is true. But, if this were all, man would be a mere result of the past, and would have no individual responsibility. There is an element not derived from birth, though it may follow upon it. Recognition of individuality is the truth in creatianism. Power of vision follows upon preparation of an organ of vision, modified by the latter but not created by it. So we have the social unity of the race, _plus_ the personal responsibility of the individual, the influence of common thoughts _plus_ the power of great men, the foundation of hope _plus_ the condition of judgment.”