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  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- 
  

  

  