EXPLANATION OF TABLES 81 



who conceived and brought forth Cain, saying I have gotten 

 a man through God. And again she brought forth his brother 

 Abel, and Abel was a shepherd and Cain was a husbandman. " 



Now it appears to me from this point onward that Cain 

 became a greater murderer than Abel, because husbandry by 

 increasing individual rights of tenure made a new inducement 

 for murder, for the nomadic shepherd shared his flocks in 

 common, whereas the primitive farmer or gardener claimed 

 sole ownership to the product of his spade, and commerce or 

 barter was as yet unknown. This increased raids and wars 

 and so increased murder sevenfold, hence as I have already 

 mentioned, it is ever the case that civilisation and knowledge 

 and town life tend to increase, not to decrease crime. So 

 robbery and murder became at first more common amongst 

 civilised nations, than nomadic ones. 



I must here point out that the first description of Adam's 

 sons goes on to describe the children of Cain as holding 

 preference in the sight of God although they were murderers, 

 till the children of Abel supplanted them. When you come to 

 read the chapter in Book II. on Cain and Abel, the reader 

 will notice that this is just what happened at this age of 

 evolution. For it appears that at first Chinese civilisation 

 developed Imagination and Agriculture throughout China and 

 southern Asia, and also the simplest forms of religious wor- 

 ship, which was afterwards supplanted and improved upon by 

 the Aryan races, who when driven back by the glacial period 

 from northern Europe superseded the Mongolian civilisation 

 in religion and government. Now the Mosaic people being an 

 Aryan race, Moses would, after the manner of the historians 

 of prehistoric and early historic times, attribute to his own 

 country of Palestine all previous legendary history his people 

 might have brought from China, India, Egypt or Persia, 

 regardless of what country it had really taken place in, or to 

 which it owed its original fables. Now as all these events 

 happened hundreds and thousands of years before the time of 

 Moses or the Jews, we must not wonder at their inaccuracy in 

 matters of detail or time, and only wonder that still any 

 record should exist that should have any correct agreement 

 in any order and sequence of facts. More than this we have 

 no right to expect; and it is absurd to expect correct details 

 in Biblical teachings. 



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