llie Fird Men. 



and Moulder, what think yc of your being ? Sec ye not ? Under- 

 stcind ye not ? Your laiigunge, your limos, are they not good? Look 

 around beneath the heavens ; see ye not the mountains and the plains ? 

 Then they looked, and saw all there was beneath the heavens. And 

 they gave thanks to the Maker and Moulder, saying : * Truly, twice 

 and three times, thanks! We have being; we have been given a 

 mouth, a face ; we speak, we understand, we think, we feel, and we 

 know that which is far and that which is near. All great things and 

 small on the earth and in the sky do we see. Thanks to thee, Maker, 

 Moulder, that we have been created, that we have our being. our 

 Grandmother, our Grandfather ! ' " 



Philosophers have sought to give exact deGnition to man. What is 

 it which distinguishes him from the rest o£ the animal kingdom ? 

 We doubt if they can get any nearer to it than in this description of 

 his attributes and his aspirations, of the circumstances attending his 

 creation, and his song of praise. ^lan is primarily a perceptive 

 being — a being which sees the actual, alike in the physical and psychi- 

 cal realms. The perceptive faculties are associated with the forehead ; 

 and man existed the moment that the power to perceive the ideal in 

 connection with the power to survey the heavens and the earth witli 

 accurate vision was given him. In other words, the frontal develop- 

 ment of the skull, to the moderate extent shown by the crania of the 

 first men, constituted the final work in their creation. 



The first men are described, in the record we have quoted, physi- 

 cally, intellectually, morally, spiritually. They are seen in this record, 

 and wherever we find trace of them, to have been created in the 

 image of G-od ; and this symmetrical man was not only the actual, but 

 he was the only possible product of the equable climate in which a 

 being with his physical characteristics could alone have originated. 



We have seen that man was created on the sixth day, and began to 

 move slowly over the earth. The skulls of the first men were gothic 

 or pyramidal in form ; and hence, by their very constitution, these first 

 men were upright" in character. The inhabitants of Eden, on the 

 seventh day, as they are presented to our consideration in the second 

 chapter of Genesis, and appear to us from the most thorough re- 

 searches into the ancient past, were simple, pure and intelligent 

 beings; but man, since that day, has indeed sought out many 

 inventions." The history of the life of Ha- Adam while in Eden is 

 given in Genesis, and its true interpretation would solve some vexed 

 questions, for the day he spent there was an epoch, and not merely a 

 fixed period in the life of a single individual. Into that history, how- 

 ever, we cannot now enter. 



According to M. de Serres, the brain of tlie Caucasian, during em- 



