the beginnings of his conscious life, 467

some simple distinctions between man and brute, 467, 468

if of brute ancestry, yet the offspring of God, 469

Scripture teaches that man's nature is the creation of God, 469

his relations to animals, authors upon, 469

immediate creation of his body not forbidden by comparative physiology, 470

that his physical system is descended by natural generation from the simiæ, an irrational hypothesis, 470

as his soul was an immediate creation of God, so, in this sense, was his body also, 470

does not degenerate as we travel back in time, 471

no natural process accounts for his informing soul nor for the body informed by that soul, 472