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It was certainly not deemed mere mythological fable by the 
ancient Greeks and Komans, for the deepest < .rs and 
best historians refer to it as an old traditional ^ P^ato 
says, “ The men of that time 1 f !b e nresent ” * 
ten thousandfold happier than those f * * t Cm every 
Tacitus writes, « The first race of men, 
depraved passion, lived without guile an cr ’ d wbe n 
without chastisements; nor was there need of rewards, when 
of themselves they followed righteousness t desoribe 
50. Was it a mere accident which led Plato to descriD. 
man’s orio-in in words which were the very echo of the lam 
~ of Moses ? “ Our nature of old was not the same as 
low It was tien one man-woman, whose form »d n»e 
were common both to male and female. Then, said J upite , 
‘I will divide them into two parts’”! (comp. Gen n. 22). 
Was it a mere coincidence which made Hesiod tb e Hes perides 
with that of Moses in relation to the garden of « P Cmn 
and to the serpent which guarded its golden i ipple . § ( ^ 
••• i_q( Who forgets Pandora, tlie nrst. created 
woman, made of clay, and endowed by the g t °C bb Jupher 
personal charm, who, by looking 
had forbidden her to open, brought into the worMevil^^ ^ 
eases, and sorrows— hope alone re ™.^ in , | Greeks in utter 
lucky hit of independent fancy, by which the Greeks, ™ 
gnorance of any primitive tradition, “gj 
say— 
“ We are from Cronus and from Rhea sprung, 
Three brothers ; who the world have parted out 
Into three lots.” || 
in iron and brass ? Was ^ j het of No ah; and 
can only say, that if blind c P singular than those 
S£l‘f,o»S£™te.).tl.« J He to. wM, gov,r» 
* Plat., Polit., c. 15, 16. Thrna Horn’., Iliad, xv. 187. 
t Plat., i%TOpos.,c.l4,15. § Hes., Theog., v. 338. II ““•> 
