New-York tribune., 1903-04-12
ANTHRoPoLoGY AND THE BIBLE.

We still in the midst of a seeming conflict
between anthropoiogy and the Bible In the second
chapter of Genesis there is an allegorical picture
of the first man. Adam, formed out OF the
ground, inspired with living soul. impressed Win
the divine image and invested with dominion over
the beasts of the fields and the birds Of the air
The first woman. Eve, his wife, Is depicted as
fashioned out of of his ribs while he was In
a trance. and the pair were placed in a garden
to till it, with liberty eat of every tree but the
tree of knowledge of good and evil They were
tempted to disobedience by the subtlety OF Satan
IN the form Of a serpent. and fell from their
state of innocence entailing the curse OF laoof'
sorrow and death upon the whole of mankind 1t
would seem impossible find any strict anthropo-
logical this instructive parable; and yet
until recentlv 1T has been so treated oy ooth
scientists and divines, who have held tnat man
was moulded by the divine hand as a lfeiess clay
image among living plants and animals: that ne
was endowed with psychieal faculties and Cod
like qualities in a few minutes hours, and that
he was the sole progentor of all the races of ASIA
Europe, Africa and America But scientists are
now urging some very different theories OF
human origin and development We are told
by paleontoIoglsts and ethnologsts that man was
but the product of the whole evolution of organic
nature that his remote ancestor was mahhhe
animal anthropod ape; that next came SUI
cesson of pre-Adamite races. of which the Hotten-
tot the PaIagonian and the ,Esquimau may De
the survivors,; that there have also been CO.
Adauite races as indigenous In other continents
than Asia as the plants and animals with winch
they are thcre found associated; that all eiVlzed
races including the Adamite, or Caucasian, nave
risen from savagery. with improving implements
and arts, through long epochs Of stone OF bronze
and of iron and have prospect of indefinite I'M
movement in the future. In spite of theoloSlcal
prejudice and instructive repugnance We
have begun entertain these theories, ana may
already provide, If need be. for their acceptance
As astronomy and geology have afforded new Illus
he attributes OF
anthropoloSy is unfolding His intellectual and
moral attributes. and may in Ike manner oe du-
tusted to the revealed doctrines of human de-
pravity and the divine image. The essential truths
in the allegorical story of Eden Will stand unil-
paired whether view mans sinfuiness as
primitive lapse or as a present. condition.; whether
we regard his ideal GodEkeness as impressed
upon him thousands Of years ago or as stih
in process of development. If anthropoiog1sts
shall prove that primeval man. physically consld-
cred was evolved from pre-Adamite and anthropoid
races as A half animal savage in state of nature;
that he slowly developed psychical powers ana re-
lieious beliefs: that while many breeds OF men
remain debased and deteriorated the Caucasian
breed both Hebrew and Christian. has been stead
tIv advancing In knowledge, virtue and religion.
and that the perfected man of the future with
growing arts and sciences. may yet transform lhe
globe and even bring 1t into connection with otner
worlds and races. II the anthropologists. say.
shall prove all these things. the Bible will teacn
in correlation with them that the first man Adam
was of the earth. earthly, placed in a 1rultluI gar
den associated with the animals. but with 90
minion over them: that God breatned into him
living soul and made him after His own IMAGE
that as in Adam all die. so in CHRIST shaIl all De
made alive. and we have borne the image Oh
the earthly so also shall We bear the image OF
the heavenly and that the man of prophecy, as
renewed after the imase of Christ the LORD from
heaven shall vet inhabit the new heaven ana tne
new earth, wherein dweleth righteousness ana
I1Ch teac
,,nsciAntidc he found to be in harmony with such