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be if there were no sentient beings who would be restrained by its 
significance from killing him? It is clear from the narrative that 
Cain had no brothers at the time, for Seth was yet unborn, and his 
very name betokens that he was given to Eve in place of Abel; for 
God, said she, “ hath appointed (sheth) me another seed instead of 
Abel,” showing that no other children were born till after the death 
of Abel. 
In the second place Cain is said to have gone out from the 
presence of Jehovah and to have “dwelt in the land of Nod,” 
eastward of Eden, i.e., eastward of that tract of country called in 
the Assyrian ‘“Idinu” where Yahveh Elohim had planted the 
Garden or Paradise. In the land of Nod, Cain takes a wife, who 
bears him a son who is called Enoch (Khanoch), and he then buiids 
a city,* and calls it after the name of his son “Enoch.” Now to 
build a city implies, first, a number of people to build it, and surely 
a far larger number to inhabit it. 
Again it is quite in accord with Genesis to believe that only the 
Caucasian or so-called White Race sprung from Adam. ‘This is 
proved by a study of the tenth chapter of Genesis, where, after the 
flood, the earth is said to be repeopled— spread abroad—by the three 
sons of Noah and their descendants. 
For it can be fully demonstrated that all the nations named in 
this great ethnological chapter are of the Caucasian Race. In 
regard to two of them, Shem and Japheth, we have always under- 
stood that their descendants are white, such as the Jews, for instance, 
who are certainly descended from Shem, as were also the Assyrians, 
Lydians, Syrians and others. From Japheth, among many other 
nations, it is certain that the Greeks are descended, for in the 
Hebrew Bible the word “Javan” is generally used to designate 
Greece. Now Javan is the fourth son of Japheth. Kittim and 
Dodanim also are the ancient names of Rhodes and Cyprus.t 
The descendants of Ham are also of the Caucasian Race. “ The 
sons of Ham were Cush, Mitzraim, Phut and Canaan.” 
Cush represents Ethiopia (Abyssinia), Mitzraim, the ancient 
Egyptians ; Phut, the Libyans ; Canaan, the Canaanites, etc., who 
were all of the White Race. The Caucasian Race is thus divided 
* Gen. iv, 17. + Gen. x, 2, 4. 
