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allegory, a part only on which to impose a rigidly literal con- 

 struction. And Moses himself, so far from recording anything 

 inconsistent with the supposition that there were coternporaries 

 with Adam, has related many circumstances which can be ex- 

 plained on no other whatever. The fear of Cain, as he went out 

 from his father's home, lest those who found him might slay 

 him ; his marrying and founding a city in the land of Nod, while 

 yet he was -the only child of the primeval pair ; the circumstance 

 of "giants in the Earth in those days," ere it was possible for the 

 human organization thus to have changed ; the marriage of the 

 " sons of God " with the " daughters of men," which made the 

 renovation of the chosen people necessary; all imply the exist- 

 ence of races coeval with the Adamic creation. 



This hypothesis moreover explains much that has been myster- 

 ious both in nature and in history. It alone accounts for those 

 distinguishing marks in organism which so plainly divide the 

 world of man; and also for those distinct traits of character 

 which are deeply impressed on each several kind. It tells how 

 the American Indian, sequestered from all the world besides, 

 became the only and ancient tenant of this Western Continent, 

 and how the European, environed by thronging myriads of a 

 constitution and capacity totally different, grew up alone and 

 distinct to his high preeminence. It explains why the Negro in 

 his benighted home has ever contested sway with the wild roam- 

 ers of the forest, and never yet has asserted his right of " domin- 

 ion over the brute," and why the dark race of the Orient has 

 groveled on in its childhood of ages, as if man had no goal of 

 destiny in his career through time. It adds the lacking links to 

 that chain of gradation which is at once the beauty and wonder 

 of terrestrial creation. And it perfects the range of that beau- 

 tiful economy of living existences, that whatever variations 

 nature calls for, the Creator provides. 



But beyond the analogies drawm from inferior orders of beings, 

 there is another and a higher analogy, which seems to force upon 

 us this theory. No one doubts that the providences as well as 

 the revelation of the Omnipotent, proclaim man to be an origin- 

 ally distinct and superior order of animal creation. No one now 



