species_--"one genus, and that genus the only one of the order."[213] Nor would this title be affected by any theory about the mode of the creation of his body. There would be nothing more derogatory to Omnipotence, or even to human nature, in the conjecture that man did not become "a living personal spirit" until he had passed through various stages of animal life, than in the doctrine that he was fashioned immediately out of the dust of the earth. There is as much dignity, or, if the reader please, as much humility of origin in the one case as in the other. The former is an extraordinary birth, consequent on some mysterious action of the Deity on the course of nature; the latter is a miraculous formation. The Hebrew text is as favorable to the one hypothesis as to the other. The preposition "of," or "out of," is not authorized by the original. Dr. Whedon reads the whole passage as follows: "And God developed [וַיִּיצֶר] the man--dust of the earth--and breathed into his nostrils the breath of lives, and the man became to a living person."[214] If the body of the second Adam, the Divine Man, was a birth (a miraculous birth), we do not see that any one need be shocked at the suggestion that the body of the first Adam was also an extraordinary or supernatural birth. Science may have free scope to settle the problem on purely inductive grounds. The following scheme will exhibit our conception of the cumulative character of the creative development: ORIGINATIONS.|(בָּרָא) |FORMATIONS (עָשָׂה = יִצֶר). | | Primal |"The Spirit of God | Element. |MOVED _upon_ the face| | of the abyss." | | | |MECHANICAL}..........|ENERGY. |FORCE, } | | . | | . |{ Vortex } | . |{ Motion, } CHEMICAL ATOMS. | . |{ | . |{Molecular} SENSIBLE AND | . |{ Energy, } LATENT HEAT. ETHER.......|.....................|{ Radiant } | |{ Energy, } RADIANT HEAT AND LIGHT. | |{ | |{ Molar {AIR, | |{ Energy, {WATER, | | {LAND and SEAS. | | |VITAL FORCE..........|Vitality.....BIOPLASM = PLANTS. | |\_________ __________/ | | \/ | | . {MOLLUSKS, | | . {FISHES, LIVING}......|.....................|................ {REPTILES, SOUL, } | | {BIRDS, | | {MAMMALS,