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which ran about the whole world, and he wonders whether the old 
shemetic term from which the modern Euphrates is derived was not 
originally a name for the general water system of the world before 
the flood, a name for that river which Aristotle describes as rising in 
the upper heavens, that river of which Homer speaks as feeding 
all fountains—as feeding every sea, and in like manner in mythology 
the term Euphrates was applied to the circling river—‘ the rope of 
the world ; the heavenly river which surrounds the world.” ‘Thus 
the reader discovers that it would not do to take the term Phrath or 
Eufrata as always and everywhere referring to the historic river 
of Mesopotamia. 
Thus, then, I hold that God planted a garden in the beginning 
where he placed man. That garden was at the North Pole, and from 
that place ran out the waters of the world, the Eufrata, the broad, 
the deep, the supply of the rivers, the supply of the fountains of 
which Aristotle and Homer wrote. 
The plural origin of man is a doctrine now superceded. ‘The 
polygeny of the human race has no respectable support. The com- 
mon descent of all races from a common stock is accepted virtually 
by all schools of reputation. If, therefore, this be the case, there 
must be some primeval point of departure for the race. The 
North Pole is the place of departure, as it was the natural watershed 
of the world. I think I am correct in stating that philologists, 
mythologists, anthropologists and archeologists of late years are 
strongly inclined to place the cradle of the human race within the 
Arctic circle. One of the most recent writers of note on this subject 
says: “ The three fundamental types of all races can be traced to 
the Northlands, the negro races being the furthest removed in 
location.” Another says: ‘“‘No other region on the face of the 
globe presents similar reunion of extreme types of the human race 
distributed around a common centre as these northern regions.” 
“One of the weightiest arguments,” says a certain writer, “ is drawn 
from philology. The three fundamental forms of human language 
are found in the same region and in analogous connection.” 
To our first parents, at the North Pole there would be but one 
day and one night during the whole year. The sun, the moon, 
planets and stars, instead of seeming to rise and set, would have an 
apparent horizontal motion, round and round, the pole directly over 
