﻿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, 
  5. 
  

  

  