286 Musings by Camp- Fire and Wayside 



to make the state and the church, and to bring God 

 out of heaven to associate with man. 



We should here notice the location of the birth- 

 place of man, as stated by the author or authors of 

 Genesis, as at least a coincidence of philosophical 

 interest. It was eastward in Eden, a country which 

 we must recognize as bounded on the north and 

 east by the Caucasian range of mountains and their 

 southward trend beyond the valley of the Euphrates, 

 It is within that arc the ethnographers have found 

 the cradle of the Aryan races — an elevated land 

 which was familiar with the rigors of winter, and in 

 which human life required the exercise of thought 

 and forecast, endurance and hardihood. The dis- 

 tinction between the children of the garden and 

 contiguous races is emphasized with racial pride. 

 He notices, as part of the penalty of Cain's crime, 

 that he was an exile, marrying a wife and building 

 a city of a different people and in a distant country. 

 The commingling of better with the inferior races he 

 speaks of as the marriage of the sons of God with 

 the daughters of men. We are not justified in re- 

 garding this as a mythological statement. It is 

 plainly an historical fact in poetic form. The union 

 of one man with one woman in a true and faithful 

 bond marked the moral and intellectual metamor- 

 phosis of Adam out of the earth earthy. It is to 

 be observed that the story of Adam by Moses 

 teaches monogamy and chastity; that all other 

 descriptions of the origin of man teach polygamy. 



