He tells a Young Girl's Story.] When the elements that went to the making of the first man, father of mankind, had been withdrawn from the world of unconscious matter, the balance of creation was disturbed.

The materials that go to the making of one woman were set free by the abstraction from inanimate nature of one man's-worth of masculine constituents.

These combined to make our first mother, by a logical necessity involved in the previous creation of our common father.

All this, mythically, illustratively, and by no means doctrinally or polemically.
The man implies the woman, you will understand.

The excellent gentleman whom I had the pleasure of setting right in a trifling matter a few weeks ago believes in the frequent occurrence of miracles at the present day.
So do I.