Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-01-25

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Ter the earth. by the mediation of air-the
chemis: produces changes, by the media
ton of fire; and, in short, whatever distant
bodies affect each other, there is always
something TO mediate. Even the motion
In toe animal kingdom, is 40 effect, as tru-
! ly as life itself; for no animal m oton can
be conceivable, without life, and no ami;
NAL can continue to live, without the con-
slant operation Of those causes which sup
port life. JuvENIs. "
! From the London GentIeman's Magazne.-Jan.
/ 1872. $3.50 ..... . -"
QUESTION, "wAs ONE MAN ONLY, OR.
WERE MORE THAN ONE, PROBABLY A
CONSIDERABLE NUMBER, ORIGINALLY
CREATED2" .. ~.
In the first chapter of Genesis, verses
twenty to twenty-fourth, are the swolds,
20 moving creature, fowl, living creature,
creeping thing" all 10 the singular mum
Der bat The sense evidently requires that
they should have plural Specification,
and means every species, all kinds of
moving creatures, &c. In the twentieth
verse it is said, Il" Let the waters bring
forth abundanty, the moving creature
that hath life, and fowl that may fly )"
and in the twenty-iourh verse we are
told, that God created " every living crea-
lture that moveth, which the waters bot
forth abundantly after their kiad.' Now,
if one pair, male and female only were
defeated, could the Taters be said, with
propriely and truth, to bring firth Gbnn-
dantty? cerlainl y not; numbers no doubt,
of each sort and species were produced
and not in one part OF the world only, but
in every part, in every country: There
was a necessity for this. for many animals.
particularly the smaller animals, the
creeping things" could not transport
themselves to distant quarters aud coun-
tries OF the world, and scarcely any across
wide seas and oceans. ..
La the same manner in the twenty
}sixLh verse, the word man cannot mean
one individual only; but must mean gen
orally the species of the superior animal,
created last Of all. This opinion is cor
roborated by the following expressions,
!" Let them have dominion over the Ash
oft the sea- &C., "male and female Great
ed he Them 6 God blesses man," in
which the plural prououn them, and not
the Singular him is used. In the fourth
chapter and versts-it is said, that Ad-
am, after his explosion from the garden
Of Eden, 4" knew his wife, Eve, and she
bare him Cain, and in verse second, that
| she again bare his brother Abeln These
sons grow up. and Cain Stays Abel He
is severely punished for this fralricide a
!. mark is set upon him, "lest any one find
ing him shall kill him" Now if all the
human beings then on The earth consist
ed of Adam and Eve, and their, as it ap-
: Epears, only child Cain, what occasion
cousd there be for any mark2 There
were doubtless, on the contrary, numbers
: of human beings, many ofwhom did no,
know Cain personally or by sight, thence
the necessity for the mark. .. - =
!. After these things, Cain goes and
!. dwc1ls in the land OF Nod His wife
. bears him son named Euoch aud Cain
builds, not house, but city. wish to
:, ask whence came Gains wife she could
!. not be Adams daughter, for it does moi
:. appear that Adam, at that lime, had any
!, daughter. She must consequently have
!. been the daughter of some other man
). Cain builds city. How can he do this
: without men 10 help him and why buiIG
;, city, if there were not men and women
\ to occupy the houses in that city -. -.
In the twenty fifth verse of the same
a chapter it is written Adam knew hi:
wife again, and she bare son and called
= his name Seth: for God, said she, halE
!, appointed me another seed, instead O
:. Abel, whom Cain slew" From th,
d words again and another seed it may bt
II fairly Inferred that Eve had no child borr
: between Abel and Seth. In the secoot
N verse Of chapter fifth, are the expression!
i of male and female" created he them
= and blessed them, and called their nam,
. Adam, in the day when they were Great
+ ed" Here as in the first chapter, the
Of plural pronouns, ttey, their and them ar,
.. made use of. and not he, his and him
i The word Adam seems, TO be used in thi
n. verse. no, for the name of one person on
h ~, but Tor that of . species. and to be sy
). nonymous with the term man. !
rvl In the fourth verse of this chapter w,
=. are informed, that the days of Adam, :" al
j. ter he had begat Seth, were eight hundre
i. years, and he begat sons aud daughters.
#. From this verse it is pretty clear that Ad
Of am begat no daughters until after th
birth OF Seth, Gains younger brother
b., Hence Gains wife could not be Adam
nj daughter, as before mentioned. r.
h From all these facts and observations
- the conclusion 10 be drawn seems to bt
cb hat according TO the B Ible Itself not on
!; man only but more men than one, proba
j bly, considerable number, were origin
n ally created.
IL (Signed) INVESTIGATOR.
H.