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that we arrive at the age of Agriculture which is the result of 

 the evolution of the faculty of Comprehension, the female faculty 

 of the human soul. And agriculture is to be the means of 

 advancing man's mind sufficiently to start the evolution of 

 Study and Religion on the Tenth Day, for as will hereafter 

 be illustrated the mind of a farmer is one of the combinations 

 of the female or comprehensive classes of mind (see chapter 

 on the Three Classes of Mind), so with the age of agriculture 

 comes the formation of home life and home ties, in place of the 

 nomadic life man has hitherto lived. Man no longer makes 

 his wife and children join in the chase but leaves them at 

 home to cultivate his garden or till his fields. Home ties now 

 start to develop, and society commences to evolve with reli- 

 gion, and from this on he is to be the protector of his wife and 

 children, and their bread-winner by the sweat of his brow. 

 But he is ever in danger of the attacks of the tribes of 

 robbers or uncivilised men who molest his home during his 

 absence, murder his family, and rob his farms or home, so 

 this age marks also the banishment of his murderous brother 

 law-breakers, who represent the uncivilised savage nations of 

 this age. As the Bible expresses it that Cain went into a 

 " far-off country of wicked men where he takes to himself a 

 wicked wife," that is a savage wife. It is also probable that 

 the primitive mode of punishing crimes of theft and murder 

 and other crimes against early civilisation was by expelling 

 the perpetrators from out the bounds of civilisation, is also 

 here depicted in Genesis, for early legislation and religions 

 must have been of the most primitive description, and any 

 reader who will take the trouble to study the laws of the Medes 

 and Persians (see Volume I. of " The Historians History of 

 the World "), will easily perceive that the first clauses are the 

 early laws (for history tells us the laws of the Medes and 

 Persians could not be altered) which are an eye for an eye, 

 and a tooth for a tooth; but the subsequent clauses become 

 more rational, hence we may fairly conclude that at first death 

 was an almost universal punishment for all and every crime, 

 and that it was well under these circumstances for the 

 criminal to make himself scarce so soon as possible. And if 

 the reader will take the trouble to note the method of the 

 Biblical description of the children of Adam, he will be struck 

 by the fact that it reads : " And Adam knew Eve, his wife, 



