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point of art, Moses is immeasurably superior to 

 Milton. 



The Paradise of Moses was a broad country, 

 diversified by mountains and plains in which great 

 rivers rose and flowed to the sea. Of those rivers 

 only one retains its ancient name, the Euphrates. 

 His Hiddekel, east of Assyria, is probably the 

 Tigris, and that which encompassed Ethiopia, the 

 Nile. The Pison is probably the Indus. Eastward 

 in this broad fertile belt Moses located the birth- 

 place of man. We now come to what is so remark- 

 able, the misconceptions in the traditional, poetic, 

 theological, and popular portraitures of Adam. It 

 would be interesting, but it is not convenient, to 

 draw these conceptions out in a third parallel col- 

 umn over against both the results of anthropological 

 investigation and the Adam of Moses in Genesis. 

 It will be seen that science gives Moses a wonder- 

 fully specific, particular, and thorough vindication. 

 The two are here set side by side for close and im- 

 mediate comparison. 



The Primitive man: The Adam of Moses: 



1. Wears no clothing, and i. Wore no clothing. "He 

 is unconscious of any phys- was naked and was not 

 ical or moral need of it. ashamed." 



2. Subsists on the spon- 2. Subsisted upon the spon- 

 taneous products of nature, taneous products of the 

 primarily and chiefly, as his garden. "I give you," said 

 dentition shows, upon fruits, Elohim, "every plant bear- 

 seeds, and nuts. i"g seed and every tree pro- 

 ducing fruit. That shall be 

 food for you." 



