"And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he
slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh
instead thereof; and the rib, which the Lord God had taken from
man, made He a woman, and brought her unto the man."--GENESIS
2:21, 22.
It is the first Saturday afternoon in the world's existence. Ever
since sunrise Adam has been watching the brilliant pageantry of wings
and scales and clouds, and in his first lessons in zoology and
ornithology and ichthyology he has noticed that the robins fly the air
in twos, and that the fish swim the water in twos, and that the lions
walk the fields in twos, and in the warm redolence of that Saturday
afternoon he falls off into slumber; and as if by allegory to teach
all ages that the greatest of earthly blessings is sound sleep, this
paradisaical somnolence ends with the discovery on the part of Adam of