begins with that of a solitary man; the next thing that happens
is the laying out of the Garden of Eden, and the causing the
growth from its soil of every tree "that is pleasant to the
sight and good for food"; the third act is the formation out of
the ground of "every beast of the field, and every fowl of the
air"; the fourth and last, the manufacture of the first woman
from a rib, extracted from Adam, while in a state
of anaesthesia.

Yet there are people who not only profess to take this monstrous
legend seriously, but who declare it to be reconcilable with the
Elohistic account of the creation!



FOOTNOTES


(1) The Nineteenth Century, 1886.

(2) Both dolphins and dugongs occur in the Red Sea, porpoises
and dolphins in the Mediterranean; so that the "Mosaic writer"
may have been acquainted with them.

(3) I said nothing about "the greater number of schools of Greek
philosophy," as Mr. Gladstone implies that I did, but expressly
spoke of the "founders of Greek philosophy."

(4) See Heinze, Die Lehre vom Logos, p. 9 et seq.