Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . or the southernshore of Beluchistan, would seem to seethe three major divisions of mankind ap-proaching from the deep, as if from somecommon origin under the sea. Nor has tradition been wholly silent inwitnessing to such a primeval movementBerosus re- of the race landwards from counts the myth tj e gea Qne Qf faQ oldestof the sea god Oan. traditions on record is pre- served in a fragment of Berosus, andindicates t
Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . or the southernshore of Beluchistan, would seem to seethe three major divisions of mankind ap-proaching from the deep, as if from somecommon origin under the sea. Nor has tradition been wholly silent inwitnessing to such a primeval movementBerosus re- of the race landwards from counts the myth tj e gea Qne Qf faQ oldestof the sea god Oan. traditions on record is pre- served in a fragment of Berosus, andindicates the ocean origin, not only of the day with men. But he took no nour-ishment, and at sunset went again intothe sea, and there remained for thenight. This animal taught men lan-guage and science, the harvesting ofseeds and fruits, the rules for the bound-aries of land, the modes of buildingcities and temples, arts, and writing,and all that pertains to civilization. In the fifth chapter of the book ofGenesis we have an account of the Adamicrace from the beginning down to theDeluge. This space is occupied withten successive patriarchs and their ex-panding families. To these great. LANDSCAPE OF THE NOACHITE DISPERSION.—Bender-Dilem.—Drawn by Taylor, after a sketch of Houssay. the arts, but of man himself. A portionof the story is as follows: Then there appeared to them fromthe sea, on the shore of Babylonia, a fear-ful animal of the name of Oan. Hisbody was that of a fish, but under thefishs head another head was attached,and on- the fins were feet like those of aman, and he had a mans voice. Theimage of the creature is still animal came at morning, and passed longevity is attributed, and the nar-rative indicates in various rt xv , _ Outline m Gen- ways the rapid tribal de- esisofthe , p - T, Adamic races. velopment of the race. Itwill be noted also by a comparison of thefifth chapter with the fourth that twoparallel lines of descent are recorded,the one through Cai
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