Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-07-27

mercy OF justice from each other though our descent maj
be from different distant distinct parentAge or even
think it is
When Adam received his wife Eve we read he said iha
"a and bis wife shall be esh yet We know ver
wethat there great difference this respect between er
and their wives regard the strict literal sense
according to our Interpretation.
Il is the with The expression that all men are of o
blood y for if examine the blood Of different individuals
we shall find great distinctions well in the ndv
duas at different times
one beautiful part OF the systematic order connected with
.nese Hebrew Scriptures is, that when we do truly ans
'ay comprehend them, there is doubt hesancy il
recognising ther rational character and when doubt and be-
10 exist we may reasonably believe they result from
our mol understanding the sense of the author
The word translated one also is translated and spn
ies ga" 80
Thus we may properly read, all men care Of blood d.
signed TO designate class Of sswarmbIooded AM;
mails, from those who called "codblooded, and from
the vegetable creation whose sap blood and equally
the objects of Almighty convance the not degraded
because is not the other For variety shown to be cha
ractersc universal throughout creation as order cua
ton, and SYSTEM from the in the heavens to the le,ve
| on the trees and the scales Of fishes.
In Genesis tx 4, it is forbidden to eat flesh with s
blood which expression also rendered its life" and its
SOUL" We in what different, light the word blood is
understood in other parts of translation Let us apply it
to the expression in discussion.
"Al men are Of one blood of one life or Of one SOUL
This shows the meaning to be of different Interpretation
from common parentage, except through their universal Fa-
ther 1t is rather that all men have one
kind Of blood, or life, soul.
The Hebrew Scriptures do attempt to give us detailed
of ofE Eod,s
the geological history Of the gradual formation Of this earth
but do explain the peculates Of other planets The
beasts Of the field the fowls of the air. the creeping things
the green herb, and trees noticed generally without dis
tincty enumeratng the individuals of each class.
In the twenty verse Of the first chapter of Genesis
there are indications of diversity in the Of men, which
we trust TO show more fully developed directly
The first chapters of Genesis presented us as sy-
nopss or compend Of the general at the Be.
ginning with reference to their source or origin from
God. The very mention Of "and of the wandering, y
sufficient to indicate in concise manner the existence Of
other people, contemporary with this chosen family of ADAM
among whom Cain teok wife, and obtained assistance to
build city.
lhs view has been obstructed by the ,Daf of one oord
no translated but employed substantive as if the
sound was enough for US, without the meaning it bears
when regarded significant adjective In pursuance Of the
A
regular succession Of emaages between the descendants
OF Cain and the women of these wandering or some
other people, and before any further notice is taken of other
immediate descendants from Adam and Eve. With singular
simplicity and mention is made several generations
OF any OF the wives names there being no doubt understood
sufcient degree OF common in the reader to compre
bend all the implied circumstances of such connexions
we read that Enocb, the first born of CainceranIv
by woman OF the wandering" peope-"had son born"
whose name was Trad. That Trad begG Mehuhae, no doubt
from wife Of some similar people, and Mahuiae beea
Methusael and Mathusael bsgat Lamech.
Here are SIX genelaons all grown the age of maturity
successvey who married and had sons and not one word
said 6y our English translation from whence they all OBJ
tanned their wives This would be extraordinary unless
some such understanding intended make men compre
bend what was written for their instruction
Lamech we read, took two wives of some unnamed peo
ple From one of these called Adah, spang sJabal the
ather Of such dwell in and have CATTLE" and bis
brother, Juha ga teacher Of such as handle the harp
md the organ While the other wife, named Zilahbore
ian instructor of every aice in brass and
ron" And then his sister Naomah is named. We have
few explicit account of the advances made in
civilization and the arts of life in the progress of mixed
population Of distinct Of men, the descendants of Adam
md Of the people of the land of those wandering" who in
few extended generations built city, learnt how manage
ae to spin and tent clohsior that must have bee
lone before they could dueH in ents-and afterwards have
he consultations of music and the convenences Of the art of
working metals. All classes, however, if may credit our
English text without any other family than those Of Adam
nd Eve who had daughters at that time and absolutely
Without mentioning woman's name from Eve to Adab
Though womans influence is apparent to any
onal sense throughout the whole narrative.
After this depression in the Hebrew writing, if for the
xpss purpose Of showing that there other of
existing contemporaneousy with Adam and his family,
be history again the subject of Adams immediate
and mentions the birth Of his third son, Seth
whose mother reoced him appointed instead Of
or the first time told that Adam begat and aghtrs
Lamech's immediate Noah the father of
Ham, Shem and Japheh from whom the nations surrounding
be Euphrates have claimed descent They settled that part
the world by the assistance Of their wives but who their
wives were told neither know with what
versy of people tribes the various generations of Cain
lad already ntermnged. All taught is that there
other people, the origin Of whom given nor their
generations enumerated, except they inemay with the
Hood or flesh Of Adam and his family There may have
een some who did We disposed concede that
all Of blood" We hope to experience at this
lay, however, respect for difference in the races well
IS for honest difference in the opinions Of men, and that
hose who study science and eager advance the
of morals and religion will not be charged with
ray intentions, while using such authority the book Of
If