admitting that the traces of organs which have disappeared actually exist [in the human body], this is not a proof of the impermanence and the non-originality of the species.
At the most it proves that the form, and fashion, and the organs of man have progressed.

Man was always a distinct species, a man, not an animal .-- Some Answered Questions, pp.

211, 212, 213, 214.
Of the story of Adam and Eve He says:-- If we take this story in its apparent meaning, according to the interpretation of the masses, it is indeed extraordinary.

The intelligence cannot accept it, affirm it, or imagine it; for such arrangements, such details, such speeches and reproaches are far from being those of an intelligent man, how must less of the Divinity--that Divinity who has organised this infinite universe in the most perfect form, and its innumerable inhabitants with absolute system, strength, and perfection....
Therefore this story of Adam and Eve who ate from the tree, and their expulsion from Paradise, must be thought of simply as a symbol.

It contains divine mysteries and universal meanings, and it is capable of marvellous explanations .-- Some Answered Questions, p.