put a rainbow in the clouds and said: "When I see that I
will recollect that I have promised not to drown you." Because if it
was not for that He is apt to drown us at any moment. Now can anybody
believe that that is the origin of the rainbow? Are you not all
familiar with the natural causes which bring those beautiful arches
before our eyes? Then the people started out again, and they were as
bad as before. Here let me ask why God did not make Noah in the first
place? He knew He would have to drown Adam and Eve and all his family.
Then another thing, why did He want to drown the animals? What had they
done? What crime had they committed? It is very hard to answer these
questions--that is, for a man who has only been born once. After a
while they tried to build a tower to get into heaven, and the gods
heard about it and said "Let's go down and see what man is up to."
They came, and found things a great deal worse than they thought, and
thereupon He confounded the language to prevent them succeeding, so
that the fellow up above could not shout down "mortar" or "brick" to
the one below, and they had to give it up. Is it possible that any one
believes that that is the reason why we have the variety of languages
in the world? Do you know that language is born of human experience,
and is a physical science? Do you know that every word has been
suggested in some way by the feelings or observations of man--that
there are words as tender as the dawn, as serene as the stars, and
others as wild as the beasts? Do you know that language is dying and
being born continually--that every language has its cemetery and its
cradle, its bud and blossom, and withered leaf? Man has loved, enjoyed
and suffered, and language is simply the expression he gives those
experiences.

Then the world began to divide, and the Jewish nation was started. Now
I want to say that at one time your ancestors, like mine, were
barbarians. If the Jewish people had to write these books now they
would be civilized books, and I do not hold them responsible for what
their ancestors did. We find the Jewish people first in Canaan, and
there were seventy of them, counting Joseph and his children already in
Egypt. They lived two hundred and fifteen years, and they then went
down into Egypt and stayed there two hundred and fifteen years they
were four hundred and thirty years in Canaan and Egypt. How many did
they have when they went to Egypt? Seventy. Ho