Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: spiritual being, in their powers and faculties, in their capacities for knowledge and judgment and will and choice, they differed as to the mode of their being, and the manner of their processes. There was, in a word, at once a unity and a difference in the sphere of the psychological as well as in that of the physiological; and both this unity and this difference fitted those two human beings for each other. Man was alone no longer: and God had made for man a help like unto himself. The Lord God brought to Adam his companion, and Adam called her Woman, because she was taken out of man. God's human creation was now complete. Humanity existed with a diversity of sex in a unity of species and nature. There stood on earth two humanpersons, and they were formed and fitted for each other. It was the design of their common Maker, that they should live in union. But in the furtherance of this design these two human persons were themselves to cooperate. God would not simply use those creatures whom He had made to His own image and likeness. He had made them capable of comprehending His designs, and of associating themselves with Him in carrying out those designs. They were not merely creatures endowed with life only and without understanding, like the animals of His earlier and lower creation. His latest works and His masterpieces resembled Himself in their power of knowledge, and in the freedom of their wills. They were spiritual beings, and they were? persons. chapter{{Section 4Persons alone are the subjects at once of duty and of right. An irrational creature has no duties towards others, and it has no rights of its own. It may destroy, and it is not morally culpable; it may be destroyed, and it has suffered no injury. Injury is the invasion of right, as culpability is th...