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IMPREGNATION. 155
CHAPTER XI.
IMPREGNATION.
The formation of the zoosperm, or seminal animal
cule, in man, and the ovum in woman, belongs
to the
domain of organic life, yet all the highest powers of the
soul, and the soul's organs, are engaged in the work.
For there is to be more than a mere bodily organization
formed— a mass of bone, muscle, and various tissues.
First of all, there is to be generated
an immortal soul.
God, doubtless, made the first human souls ;
but He
made them with the power of generating all other souls,
just as the first bodies have generated all other bodies.
God created no souls but the first, and the parent of any
child is the parent of his soul as much as of his body.
In fact, it is the soul, so generated, which forms the body
which, for some years, is to be its habitation, the medium
of its perceptions, and the instrument of its expression.
This generation
of souls must be understood and ac
cepted, before we can proceed one step in a true phi
losophy of generation, or development, or progress. It
is at the basis of all true science of the laws of heredi
tary descent. If God had now a special manufactory
of human souls, and they were furnished to order, and
one was always ready whenever, over the whole earth,
a human ovum chanced to be impregnated, how does it