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led to our placing increasing confidence in the history of Berosus, 
it is worth notice that ho implies that Babel was inhabited 
before the Deluge. I read in Smith’s “ Early History -of Baby- 
lonia,”* that a king, named Zabuu, founded the Temples of 
Ammit (Venus) and Samas the Sun, at Sippara, “ in ancient 
days.” There is nothing impossible in the fact that knowledge 
might be preserved, in the Babylonian manner, on baked tiles, 
even through such a catastrophe, which for the rest does not seem 
to have left any very deep impression on the Babylonian plains. 
69. The foregoing pages must be looked upon in the light of a 
preliminary inquiry, necessarily fragmentary and imperfect, from 
the very obscurity of the subject. I have stopped short at the 
threshold of the historic era, but have availed myself freely of the 
light thrown by the Book of Genesis on the creation and early 
condition and civilization of mankind. In so doing I wish it to be 
understood that I write only for those who will concede that we 
have there presented to us a faithful transcript of the earliest 
traditions of the human family. In seeking to follow the dim light, 
which in some cases is all that the Scripture affords, and to explore 
the coincidence of this light with that thrown bv reliable geological 
discoveries, I am conscious that I may have made many mistakes 
as to facts, and still more as to theories. In the facts themselves, 
rightly understood, there can be no discrepancy, always taking it 
for granted, as above, that the Book is a reliable record. 
70. Let us see, then, to what conclusions [inferences] we have, 
with more or less certainty, arrived. 
71. First, that Adam, the head of the human family, was 
created by the Almighty, after special purpose, and in a special 
manner, in order to reflect His own image ; and as a corollary to the 
above, that no creation of an Adam before the end of the sixth day 
can possibly be made consistent with either the first or second 
record in Genesis. 
72. Second, that even as Adam was designed to shadow forth 
the power and wisdom, the creative skill, and orderly arrangement 
exhibited by the Divine mind in the universe, so Eve was intended 
to reflect the beauty, the grace, the compassion and tenderness of 
the Divine nature ; as a corollary, the sexes are not equally adapted 
for all studies and pursuits, and have totally different parts assigned, 
to which the diversity of mental organization predisposes them. 
73. Third, that civilization in its amount, or in its deficiency, 
is inseparably connected with the state of the woman ; as a corollary 
that religion is specially needed to support her in her proper sphere, 
her nature being essentially more weak. 
* Bib. Arch. Trans., vol. i. p. 34. Appendix ( J). 
