﻿GENEALOGY 
  OF 
  SHEM. 
  8l 
  

  

  intervals 
  of 
  , 
  time, 
  and 
  many 
  generations 
  of 
  

   men. 
  The 
  same 
  impression 
  must 
  arise 
  from 
  

   the 
  condensed 
  abstract 
  given 
  of 
  the 
  origin 
  

   and 
  growth 
  of 
  communities 
  capable 
  of 
  

   building 
  such 
  cities 
  as 
  Resen 
  and 
  Calah 
  

   and 
  Nineveh 
  are 
  described 
  to 
  be.* 
  In 
  the 
  

   genealogy 
  of 
  the 
  family 
  of 
  Shem, 
  we 
  have 
  

   a 
  list 
  of 
  names, 
  which 
  are 
  names 
  and 
  nothing 
  

   more 
  to 
  us. 
  It 
  is 
  genealogy 
  which 
  neither 
  

   does, 
  nor 
  professes 
  to 
  do, 
  more 
  than 
  to 
  trace 
  

   the 
  order 
  of 
  succession 
  among 
  a 
  few 
  families 
  

   only 
  out 
  of 
  the 
  millions 
  then 
  already 
  existing 
  

   in 
  the 
  world. 
  Nothing 
  but 
  this 
  order 
  of 
  

   succession 
  is 
  given, 
  nor 
  is 
  it 
  at 
  all 
  certain 
  

   that 
  this 
  order 
  is 
  consecutive 
  or 
  complete. 
  

   Nothing 
  is 
  told 
  us 
  of 
  all 
  that 
  lay 
  behind 
  

  

  * 
  Gen. 
  x. 
  ii, 
  12. 
  

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