Original sin is at the moment one of the chief obstacles that stand in the way of an intensive and extensive progress of Christian thought. An embarrassment or a stumbling-block to the well-meaning but undecided, and at the same time a refuge for the narrow-minded.
The transposition brings the notion of original sin completely into line with a modern view of the universe, it entirely respects Christian thought and the customary Christian approach—the only corrective it contributes, in short, being to substitute a collective ‘matrix’ and a collective heredity for the womb of our mother Eve. And this, incidentally, has the further result of releasing us from the necessity (progressively more unacceptable) of having, illogically, to derive the whole human race from one single couple.