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it now is, and became modified into the forms we 

 meet with in the various regions of the earth, by 

 the effect of the .climatal and other conditions to 

 which they were subjected. 



The advocates of this hypothesis are divisible 

 into several schools. There are those who repre- 

 sent the most numerous, respectable, and would- 

 be orthodox of the public, and are what may be 

 called " Adamites," pure and simple. They 

 believe that Adam was made out of earth some- 

 where in Asia, about six thousand years ago ; that 

 Eve was was modelled from one of his ribs ; and 

 that the progeny of these two having been re- 

 duced to the eight persons who were landed on 

 the summit of Mount Ararat after an universal 

 deluge, all the nations of the earth have proceeded 

 from these last, have migrated to their present 

 localities, and have become converted into Negroes, 

 Australians, Mongolians, &c., within that time. 

 Five-sixths of the public are taught this Adamitic 

 Monogenism, as if it were an established truth, 

 and believe it. I do not ; and I am not acquainted 

 with any man of science, or duly instructed person, 

 who does. 



A second school of monogenists, not worthy of 

 much attention, attempts to hold a place midway 

 between the Adamites and a third division, who 

 take up a purely scientific position, and require to 

 be dealt with accordingly. This third division, in 

 fact, numbers in its ranks Linnaeus, Buffon, 



