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similar successive tides of population spreading over tlie land ; 
and even at the present time the tide of emigration is 
becoming every day more and more wide-spread over the 
world. Possibly the late diggings among the caves and gravel- 
pits of France, Switzerland, Denmark, &c., which have dis- 
covered some human remains mixed among flint, bone, stone, 
and other implements, may indicate the primary inhabitants 
of these countries covered up by a slight deposit of Pleistocene 
gravel and clays, extending within certain limited bounds ; 
thus indicating traces of the early population. But I have 
much more confidence in the account given in the Genetic 
record. Chronology, properly studied, ought to embrace the 
whole period of that record when, “ in the beginning omnipo- 
tent force, boundless and eternal, first initiated the universe 
by His word.” The early period, however, can only be ex- 
pressed in relation to the order, there being no means of 
defining very accurately small portions of time, except in very 
familiar popular language. A day is measured, of course, by the 
diurnal revolution of the earth ; a month by the changes of 
the moon ; a year by an annual revolution round the sun, 
which was established in the heavens on the fourth day of 
creation — “ To be lights in the firmament, to divide the day 
from the night ; to be for signs and for seasons, for days and 
for years.” 
We now come to that period when God rested from the 
works which He had made ; and we are led to consider the 
Why Adam was created in Paradise, — for the purpose of 
serving the Lord (“ Obed in Adami ”), as we find that was 
his first act of service after his being told , — (C Of every tree of 
the garden thou mayest freely eat,” but at the same time 
warned that “ Of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil 
thou shalt not eat of it, for in the day thou eatest thereof thou 
shalt surely die.” From succeeding events recorded in the 
Bible, we know that this did not result. We will explain this 
further afterwards. 
The first service, then, which was imposed on Adam was to 
give names to “ every beast of the field, and every fowl of the 
air, which were brought to him, and whatsoever name he 
called every living creature, that was the name thereof.” As 
he was still without “a help meet for him,” God formed 
Eve, and Adam named her in right of power of nomenclature, 
“ This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh ; she 
shall be called woman;” i.e. “ womb-man.” 
The very important events which are recorded in the third 
chapter of Genesis, and generally described as the temptation 
