Creation's dawn / by "Kish" ; with a preface by A. H. Sayce.

  • Kish, pseud.
Date:
1908
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Credit: Creation's dawn / by "Kish" ; with a preface by A. H. Sayce. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    daughters of Men [Adam] that they were fair and they took them wives of all which they chose.” Here the Biblical Narrative gives us a cleax demonstration of “ Sexual Selection,” in the early ages of Mankind. It suffices therefore for us to show that the Pre- Adamites differed in colour from the Adamites. The first statement that we have as to the differ- ence of colour of the two “ Races ” is when Cain is to be banished from the Land of Eden by Yahveh, and his undisguised fear as to his being killed by those who inhabited the Land of Nod. Yahveh recognises this fear as a very reasonable one, and He “set a mark upon Cain lest any finding him should kill him.” What was this “ Mark,” bestowed so that those who saw him would not kill him ? . The most reasonable probability is that Yahveh did not “ Mark him out ” so as to distinctively differentiate him from the Noddites, but from his parents so that he resembled the inhabitants of the Land of Nod. In a word, Yahveh changed the colour of his skin to all outward appearances and made him black. Lamech—the descendant of Cain—knew of the sevenfold punishment, and therefore he must have known of the conditions under which that punish- ment was pronounced. The proof of the veracity of the Bibhcal Narrative of the Creation, and of the Flood, consists in the con-