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THE GARDEN OF EDEN 



"The Garden of Eden is described in a way that leaves the actual situation which the 

 writer was aiming to indicate very vague, but certainly it is in the neighborhood of the 

 Euphrates, which is definitely named as one of the rivers which water it; and the word 

 'Eden' itself is the ordinary term for a plain in the Sumerian speech, the oldest language 

 existing in this region. So that the Garden of Eden simply meant the Garden of the Plain, 

 and the first forefathers of our race were believed to have had their home in this most 

 fertile spot" (see page 132). 



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