tables in
Genesis, see below.

The _unity of the human race_ is everywhere assumed in
Scripture. Some modern scientific men have denied this, but
their arguments for a diversity of origin do not amount to
positive proof. They are theoretic rather than demonstrative,
and the weight of evidence is against them. We must remember,
moreover, that man lives under a supernatural dispensation. The
narrative in the eleventh chapter of Genesis seems to imply that
God interposed miraculously to confound human speech, in
accordance with his plan to scatter men "abroad upon the face of
all the earth." In like manner he may have interposed in a
secret way to intensify the diversity in the different races of
men. It does not appear certain, however, on physiological
grounds, that any miraculous interposition was needed; and we
may leave the question of the manner in which the present
diversity among the children of Adam was produced among the
secret things of which it is not necessary that we should have
an explanation.

The question of the _universality of the deluge_ is with
believers in revelation one of words only, on which it is hardly
necessary to waste time. The _end_ of the deluge was the
complete destruction of the human race, all but Noah and his
family. This it accomplished, and why need we raise any further
inquiries; as, for example, whether the polar lands, where no
man has ever trod, were submerged also? "All the high hills
under the whole heaven" doubtless included all the high hills
where man lived, and which, therefore, were known to man.

(B.) Another class of difficulties is _historical_, consisting
in alleged inconsistencies and disagreements between different
parts of the narrative. For the details of these, the reader
must be referred to the commentaries. One or two only can be
noticed as specimens of the whole. It is said that the second
account of the creation (Gen. 2:4-25) is inconsistent with the
first; the order of creation in the first being animals, then
man; in the second, man, then animals. But the answer is
obvious. In the first account, the order of succession in the
several parts of creation is one of the main features. It
distinctly announces that, _after_ God had finished the rest of
his works, he made man in his own image. The second accou