S6 PRIMEVAL MAN. 



twenty-eighth century B.C. would be some 

 400 years before the Flood. On the other 

 hand, a difference of 800 years is allowed 

 by the chronology which is founded on the 

 Septuagint Version of the Scriptures. But 

 the fact of this difference tells in two ways. 

 A margin of variation amounting to eight 

 centuries between two versions of the same 

 document, is a variation so enormous, that 

 it seems to cast complete doubt on the 

 whole system of interpretation on which such 

 computations of time are based. And yet 

 it is more than questionable whether it is 

 possible to reconcile the known order of 

 events with even this larger estimate of the 

 number of years. It is true that, according 

 to this larger estimate, the Flood would be 



