The Negro A Beast In The Image Of GOD

MAhJ, AND THE NEGRO. 21
thai: the more the habits of any animal are studied by
a naturalist, the more he attributes to reason and the
less to unlearned instincts." For hither information
oi the existence of mind, and the display of its various
attributes in the fish and fowl and beast, see the works
of Cun'ier, Darwiui Quatrefages, Hartman and others.
When the fish and fowl and beast were all made
alter their kind, God then said, "Let us make man in
our own image after our likness. "'^ '" "'^ v^o God created
man in his own image,
in. the image of God created he
him; male and female created he Ihem."— Gen. i, 26-27.
\n the more detailed descri])tio'i of tiie creation of
man given in the 2d chapter of Gencsir^, verse 7, we are
taug:ht that *'The Lord God formed man out of the
dust
of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath
of life; and man became a living soul." "The dust of
the ground," "'out" of which ''The Lord God formed
man." was a part of the original creation— matter.
We
are thus plainly taught that the physical structure of
man was simply a formation out of matter;
and like the
fish and fowl and beast, man received his animal life
from matter. Hence, when his physical and mental
organisms were completed, man, like the lower animals,
was simply a combination of matter and mind.
Geological research demonstrates that death— physical
death— entered the world almost simultaneously with life
plant life. And that it followed closely upon the introduction
of animal life. Since man, like the lower
animals derived his animal life from matter, it follows