h.D., M.D. The author
thinks that he has produced abundant evidence to prove that "Jehovah,
the Second Person of the Godhead, wrote the first chapter of Genesis on
a stone pillar, and that this is the manner by which he first revealed
it to Adam; and thus Adam was taught not only to speak but to read and
write by Jehovah, the Divine Son; and that the first lesson he got was
from the first chapter of Genesis." He goes on to say: "Jehovah wrote
these first two documents; the first containing the history of the
Creation, and the second the revelation of man's redemption,... for
Adam's and Eve's instruction; it is evident that he wrote them in the
Hebrew tongue, because that was the language of Adam and Eve." But this
was only a flower out of season.

And, finally, in these latter days Mr. Gladstone has touched the
subject. With that well-known facility in believing anything he wishes
to believe, which he once showed in connecting Neptune's trident
with the doctrine of the Trinity, he floats airily over all the
impossibilities of the original Babel legend and all the conquests of
science, makes an assertion regarding the results of philology which no
philologist of any standing would admit, and then escapes in a cloud of
rhetoric after his well-known fashion.

This, too, must be set down simply as a survival, for in the British
Isles as elsewhere the truth has been established. Such men as Max
Muller and Sayce in England,--Steinthal, Schleicher, Weber, Karl
Abel, and a host of others in Germany,--Ascoli and De Gubernatis in
Italy,--and Whitney, with the scholars inspired by him, in America,
have carried the new science to a complete triumph. The sons of
Yale University may well be proud of the fact that this old Puritan
foundation was made the headquarters of the American Oriental Society,
which has done so much for the truth in this field.(420)

(420) For Mr. Gladstone's view, see his Impregnable Rock of Holy
Scripture, London, 1890, pp. 241 et seq. The passage connecting the
trident of Neptune with the Trinity is in his Juventus Mundi. To any
American boy who sees how inevitably, both among Indian and white
fishermen, the fish spear takes the three-pronged form, this utterance
of Mr. Gladstone is amazing.

V. SUMMARY.

It may be instructive, in conclusion, to sum up briefly the history of
the whole struggle.

First, as to the origin of speech, we have in the beginning the whole
Church rallying aroun