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12. His first permanent 12. Adam's first perma- 

 clothing is the skins of ani- nent clothing was of the 

 mals. skins of animals. "Unto 



Adam and also to his wife 

 did Elohim make coats of 

 skins and clothed them." 



13. Primitive man is an 13. Adam was an arboreal 

 arboreal animal. He finds individual, finding his habi- 

 his habitat, food, and refuge tat and food in and among 

 in or among the trees. the trees of the garden. 



Here we have thirteen points of description by 

 vi^hich anthropological science identifies and de- 

 scribes the primitive man, not one of which is omit- 

 ted by Moses. Whatever the theories of the way 

 in which the writer in Genesis came into possession 

 of the knowledge of the primitive conditions of the 

 human race, it is demonstrated that he possessed it 

 without an error, and anticipated the conclusions of 

 modern research. The descriptions of the original 

 man found in every cult that was in existence when 

 Genesis was written, or which the poets have since 

 created, are from every point of view in wide con- 

 trast with and inferior to that of Moses. Coarse of 

 material, low of ideal, crude in structure, and as 

 barren ethically as a stone, they are only foils 

 which heighten the conception of the Hebrew bard, 

 lawgiver, and prophet. His is as the veil of a bride, 

 which heightens a beauty which it seems to conceal. 

 A blue mist softens, but does not obscure, a rugged 

 landscape. It brings into view and evidence the 

 otherwise invisible atmosphere. Thus while Moses 



