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presuppose; consequently, tlie sphere of language was much 

 enlarged, many new radicals being invented. 



The numbers of mankind must have prodigiously ^in- 

 creased, long before the death of Adam; for it is ridi- 

 culous to think that he had no more than three sons, or 

 that they had not attaiired ^tlte' age df pubefty, at 'the 

 same period that men dwiat present. He must have -had 

 many more sons, as well as?' daxighters, though none are 

 mentioned by Moses ; as he intended tracing little more 

 than the pedigree of Noah, and thei 'remote *««l imme- 

 diate causes of the Flodd: * " - •'" ' '^-"^^^ - ^vn:t-Ifi 

 '' ^' Cain, when sentence of 'banishment was pronounced 

 against him, apprehending he might be put to death by 

 some of his brethren, retired to a considerable distance 

 from them; and his faniily, having little or rio intercourse 

 with the remaining descendants of Adam, for many ages, 

 it is highly probable, that, in his family, the primitive 

 language -was gradually altered: at least, -it could not re- 

 ceive' the rm'in-ovements, which that, more favoured by 

 Adain, had rticeived. In this, peace was preserved, at 

 least during the life of Adam; but, in the family of Cain, 

 crimes of every kind appear 'to liave been committed ; in 

 so much, that, in the days -of Enos, 4he grandson of Adan^ 

 the descendants of- Seth, and .pfobably many more, who 

 formed the community in wliich Adam resided, were dis- 

 tinguished from the family of Cain, by tlie honorable ap- 

 pellation of ■Sons of God. But, in process of time, when 

 both families had multiplied to a great degree, and the 

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