There is a lot in Adam Smith that reflects the insights of Rousseau and anticipates those of Marx.
Given that we are all descended from Adam and Eve, genetic defects as a result of intra-family marriage would not begin to crop up until after the first few dozen generations.
In other words, science tells us that Adam and Eve are fictions. That Saint Paul or Uncle Tom Cobley and all thought otherwise is irrelevant. They were wrong.
If Adam was stupid about his pride, Gansey was stupid about Adam.
I've learned a lot about women. I think I've learned exactly how the fall of man occured in the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden, and Adam said one day, Wow, Eve, here we are, at one with nature, at one with God, we'll never age, we'll never die, and all our dreams come true the instant that we have them. And Eve said, Yeah. . . it's just not enough is it?
Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, 'God is hard to find.
Had Adam tenderly reproved his wife, and endeavored to lead her to repentance instead of sharing in her guilt, I should be much more ready to accord to man that superiority which he claims; but as the facts stand disclosed by the sacred historian, it appears to me that to say the least, there was as much weakness exhibited by Adam as by Eve. They both fell from innocence, and consequently from happiness, but not from equality.
Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam Smith's moral philosophy, but which was suppressed for a century by prevailing interest in the technique of the production of wealth.
EXTINCTATHON, Monitored by MaddAddam. Adam named the living animals, MaddAddam names the dead ones. Do you want to play?
An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.
When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away.
Adam did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden.
You ever wonder if Adam and Eve were just the puppies God dumped because they wouldn't house-train?
Existence came from God; death came by Adam; and immortality and eternal life come through Christ.
We accept without reservation the scriptural teachings that Christ is the Son of God and that he came into the world to ransom men from the spiritual and temporal death brought into the world by the fall of Adam. No one can state too plainly or emphasize too strongly this eternal truth that salvation is in Christ and that it comes because of his atoning sacrifice. Nor can we set forth too clearly the gospel truth that we also must do certain things to be saved.
I wish Adam had died with all his ribs in his body.
It doesn't embarrass me one bit to let you know that I believe Adam and Eve were real people.
Eve said to the serpent, 'You know I could go for a bit to eat, but I don't know you from Adam. '
Blue thought about what Gansey had said, about being wealthy in love. And she thought about Adam, still collapsed on their sofa downstairs. If he had no one to wrap their arms around him when he was sad, could he be forgiven for letting his anger lead him?
You're not falling for me, are you, Irish?" -Adam to Gabrielle