Omaha daily bee., 1914-07-05

sing sweetly; anthropologists assure us
that our progenitors could sing even before
they could talk. In, song or chanting they
expressed most of their emotions of love,
desire, regret and victory. But the true
song was expressive OF love and courtshlp
even from the beginning, In these re-
spects at least, the progenitors Of man diff.
fered radically from the apes.
Now, at some stage in evolution there oc-
Cured a change which advanced the then
dominant form from anthropoid to man.
Very small the change might have been to
mark the Great Transition-the most re-
markable step in all time. Somewhere
in Tropical Africa, Darwin believes, and
Sir William Willcocks recently discovered
in Egypt a strip OF land which many be-
lieve to have been the Garden of Eden
there existed tribe further advanced than
any in the world at that time. And In that
tribe there appeared some one or two In
dividuals superior to all the rest OF the
tribe. There were two, according to the
Biblical account, a male and female. On
the principle of sexual seIection the domi-
nant male OF the tribe naturally would
have chosen for his mate the most ad-
vanced female, and she would have pre-
ferred this man. 1t was a mental change
that produced their advancement, mere
spark of the human knowledge which has
grown into a brighter and brighter light
with succeeding ages. They were the first
man and woman, the parents OF Cain and
the human race.
The WORD Adam in the Jehovistic text
is from the Hebrew 'eth-ha.adam," mean
ing the Earth Man. Eve is from the He
brew, Hawaii" derived from "hayoh," ito
live" and was applied to the first woman
as "the mother of all living" The names
are equally applicable to the evolutionary
account therefore. Through the combined
advantages of heredity and superior paren.
tai training, it would seem, from the stand
point of science, that the children Of this
first couple might have advanced beyond
their parents. Very rapid progression
naturally would have followed the attain
ment of human knowledge, a point where
mind counted for most in the struggle for
existence. 1t is also probable that these
first human beings-especally the chill
dren, Cain, Abel and Seth-were more pow.
erful physically than any other OF their
tribesmen, and that they were the heads
of the tribe.
Now the tribe which possessed these
dominant individuals must have been in
close proximity to the wandering tribes
Of Tree Men and their habitats.
Being conscience-stricken after the mur.
der Of his brother, 1t is reasonable to sup.
pose that Cain might have Joined one OF
these rowing hordes and from among. them
chosen his wife.
In this, then, we have a simple solution
OF the problem which has been botherIng
the world for so long.
The tribes dwelling near the Earth Men
must have been nearly as far advanced as
they; and Cain, by the same principle OF
sexual selection, would have chosen q wife
from among the handsomest and most hu-
man like Of them This being so, his chill
dren, at least some of them, would have
inherited his human characteristics and
continued to advance. And thus the race
begun by Adam and Eve would have been
perpetuated and constantly improved. The
Land of Nod mentioned in the Fourth
Chapter of Genesis, was probably inhabited
by colony OF these Tree Men.
The City OF Enoeh that Cain founded
was perhaps only very large community
OF Tree Men and tree houses, the only
kind OF city known TO the Miocene world.
Very likely 1t was one OF several such
communities in the Land OF Nod, which,
we are told, was TO the east OF Eden.
These tribes wandered about and estab.
lished temporary abodes wherever food
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