6 Aug. 1814

Logic

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Had Adam and Eve remained childless, the human species would never have received, at least from human lips, a common name. On that supposition himself and Eve would have been all the human beings whom Adam could have had need to speak of: herself and Adam all that Eve could have had need to speak of: for any common name including these two still less for a common name including other human beings in an indefinite number could either of these our first parents have had any use.

In the language of the modern Hebrews and even in the language of the Hebrew Scriptures, the same word which is employed to designate the earliest individual of the human species, man, is employed to designate the species likewise. A name employed constantly by Adam for designating himself to the exclusion of Eve could never have been employed or pitched upon for designating both of them together.

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