| ### QUESTION 97 ### OF THE PRESERVATION OF THE INDIVIDUAL IN THE PRIMITIVE STATE ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### We next consider what belongs to the bodily state of the first man: first, as regards the preservation of the individual; secondly, as regards the preservation of the species. #### Under the first head there are four points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether man in the state of innocence was immortal? #### (2) Whether he was impassible? #### (3) Whether he stood in need of food? #### (4) Whether he would have obtained immortality by the tree of life? ####  |