12 SIEGE OF THE SOUTH POLE 
confidence in that its predictions are being fulfilled, and it 
is too absurd that it should be said that certain men had 
been able, the immensity of Ocean traversed, to sail from 
this side and arrive at the other so that there also the 
human race should be set up from that one first 
man. . . 
To Augustine the trouble seemed to be to understand 
how the Antipodes could be descended from Adam, and 
the completeness of his theory as to the constitution of 
the City of God required that all men should be descended 
through Noah from Adam. His suggestion that the 
other side of the world might be entirely covered with 
Spherical Earth with no Antipodes. 
(After Rainaud.) 
water was worked out in a mediaeval spherical Earth 
which could harbour no Antipodes, being devised on the 
principle that the lithosphere or solid globe need not be 
concentric with the hydrosphere or globe of waters. But 
centuries before inis ingenious plan of avoiding the the- 
