MAN OF MULTIPLE OEIGIN. 443 



to other animals, he arrives at similar results. There 

 are well-marked varieties in the human species, and these 

 varieties are located in different regions of the globe. 

 The differences among these varieties, like those seen 

 among lions and other animals, are primitive, and have 

 always existed. Therefore, the origin of man is multiple. 

 There have been separate creations of men adapted to 

 different localities, either simultaneously or at successive 

 times. 



He admits that there is a unity among the different 

 races of men, in so far as they partake of the same com 

 mon nature, but he denies that they have all a common 

 ancestry or parentage. He goes further : he maintains 

 that Adam was not the first man, and also that the 

 Book of Genesis does not say he was. His words are 

 &quot; and that Adam and Eve were neither the only, nor the 

 first, human beings created, is intimated in the statement 

 of Moses himself, when Cain is represented as wandering 

 among foreign nations after he was cursed, and taking 

 a wife from the people of Nod, where he built a city, 

 certainly with more assistance than that of his two 

 brothers.&quot; 



The gravity of the questions to which such opinions 

 from such a man give rise, is not to be judged of by the 

 apparent contradiction they give to such statements of 

 Scripture as that, he &quot; made of one blood all nations on 

 the face of the earth,&quot; but in the deductions we must 

 necessarily draw from them if true. If there were a 

 plurality of creations of man, simultaneous or successive, 

 Adam not being the first, what becomes of the doctrine 

 of the Fall ? and what of the Atonement, which is co-ex 

 tensive in its operation ? The first Adam and the second 



sedition of these ferocious beasts Evidence could be accu 

 mulated to show, we will not say the improbability, but even the impos 

 sibility of supposing, that animals and plants were created in single 

 pairs, and assumed afterwards their present distribution.&quot; 



