The Third Dispensation (see Volume VI, page 136).

It is evident from the many parallels exhibited between the period immediately

following the flood and the period of the creation of Adam, that a new dispensation

commenced with Noah and his saved family. If we believe the teaching of Scripture

(Gen. 10:) we can have no alternative but to believe that all mankind is descended from

Noah, through his three sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth:--

The apostle Paul, speaking to the Athenians said:--

These words of Paul are either Scripture truth and therefore final, or private opinion

and therefore fallible. Speaking as an apostle (ex cathedra, as it were) Paul was inspired

and infallible, and the testimony given here on Mar's Hill was a public witness of a duly

accredited ambassador of Christ. He spoke truth, and his word here is but an echo of the

statement of Gen. 10:

The Athenians applied the term of autochthones to other peoples, believing that other

peoples had sprung as a separate creation from the soil, as they believed they had. One

can feel the point of the apostle's words to these very Athenians, knowing the belief they

entertained. The testimony to the unity of the human race seems to be the exclusive

witness of the Scriptures, and what science is reluctantly but nevertheless definitely

approaching, the humblest believer in the Word has known all along. As far back as

1655 La Peyrére published his theory of pre-adamite races, and at intervals since then

there have been various suggestions put forward regarding the different origins of

existing nations.

Voltaire said that no one who was not blind could doubt

One philosopher maintained that there were eleven different species of mankind,

while another went so far as to say there could be no less than fifteen.

Let us look at some of the most striking differences exhibited by the various nations.

Among them we might mention colour. Quatrefages, in his book, "the Human Species",