What must Adam have hoped while he was in the process of growing to perfection? For Adam in the Garden of Eden could have material possessions, power or any external thing have been his very deepest wish? As the one who was to have dominion over all things, Adam was the master of his beautiful environment. Therefore, he certainly had no reason of wanting more material possessions or power. If Adam ever had a wish while still growing toward perfection it could only have been to reach perfection itself. In other words his wish would have been to become a being of perfected character, to realize the ideal of creation, to reach perfect manhood.