8o PRIMEVAL MAN. 



the events which connect existing generations 

 with the first Progenitor of their Race. And 

 of that History, the sole object appears to be, 

 to give in outline the order of such transac- 

 tions as had a special bearing on Religious 

 Truth, and on the course of Spiritual Belief 

 The intimations given in the earlier chapters 

 of the Book of Genesis on all matters of 

 purely secular interest, are incidental only, 

 and exceedingly obscure. And yet it is not 

 a total silence. Enough is said to indicate 

 how much there lay beyond and outside of the 

 narrative which is given. The dividing of the 

 Tribes of the Gentiles among the descendants 

 of Japheth,* conveys the idea of movements 

 and operations which probably occupied long 



* Gen. x.'2, S. 



