Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-07-05
Cain and His FamThe Remarkable Painting by comOn the Famous
Conclusions Of Science to the Appearance and His

could be obtained with least effort. This
explanation further remedies the apparent
contradiction between the condemnation of
Cain to lead nomadic life and his subse-
quent settlement in a city.
We have shown that at some stage the
Tree Man lost one pair Of his ribs The
subconscious knowledge Of this and of the
fact that in a former stage the earth was
inhabited exclusively by androgynous forms
which later were divided into the two sexes
male and female-may have manifested
itself in the Biblical narrative that Eve
was made out of the rib of Adam. Like
WISE many savage tribes have traditions
that they sprung from beasts, this being
the significance of the totem pole. And
among most ancient Egyptian myths there
was belief that the oldest human being
had been of animal nature, capable only of
inarticulate sounds until the god Thot had
taught them both language and writing.
Darwinism thus had its precursor in the
very child age of civilization.
Just at what stage in evolution the pro-
genitor of the human race was entitled to
rank as man must forever remain a matter
of conjecture There are many races of men,
and some of them differ as widely the
blue.eyed Caucasians from the blackskinned
Philippians.
In Mlocene times the fora Of tropical
Africa had reached a pinnacle of luxuriance
unknown before or since, and the first mans
abode there must have been a Garden OF
Eden in truth.
They remained in this earthly paradise I'M
til the increased population forced them from
the favored locality, and they were compelled
to till the soil and domesticate animals as
means of subsistence. Hence we find Cain
a tiller of the soil and Abel a keeper of
sheep. The dog and sheep are known to
have been among the earliest animals do
mesticated. Gains occupation would indi-
cate that he had fixed habitation until he
committed the murder and Joined one OF the
nomadic Tree tribes, bringing to them their
first knowledge of agriculture perhaps. Be-
ing the son Of the first human beings, he
probably became chief of the tribe Of Near
Men with which he was allied, for he must
have excelled all the others, both physically
and mentally. The most humanlike woman
of the tribe would have been the most in
telligent and the prettiest. By the law Of
sexual selection she and Cain would imme-
diately have fallen in love with each other,
for at that time lovers judged each other
solely by external appearance. It was the
age Of applied practical eugenics.
So we have every ground for concluding
that Gains wife was handsome, the most
. handsome creature in the world at that time,
perhaps with the possible exception of Eve.
Her mother-in-law may have looked down on
her somewhat because she was not quite
good enough to be called human being, but
what else could Cain do when there was no
other human beings in the world for him
to marry? Gains wife could dance, no doubt,
for that was one OF the earliest accomplish
ments, we are told. and the inherited bias
for her wild and free kind OF dancing is
often displayed by her sex until this day.
But she must have looked very different
from our modern tango girl in other re-
spects than her entire absence of clothing
fancy her a creature very swift Of foot
young, agile and playful. She could climb
trees and swing from limb to limb in a
manner that would have demanded for her
highest
cult of to-day. She was smaller of statue
than modern women. Her head was rather
enlongated, or dolichocephalic as scientists
say, and her toes were prehensile enabling
her to grasp objects with her feet as well as
with her hands. Even to-day there are
people in museums who can play the piano
with their toes Her complexion was of
a dark reddish brown; 1t is, probable that
she had blue eyes. though there is much
doubt on this point, and her coarse hair
was Of very dark brown, nearly black.
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