T H E P R E - A DAM IT E WHO TEM PTED EV E SCRIPTURE AND' SCIENCE IN UNISON AS RESPECTS THE ANTI UITY OF MAN ! . H Y E S T E R L E . BYL A . O L h i her s ien e trace et Wisdom w thall L c c the r e nkind of ore and w ere be i ns a M a y , h g c , en le all his traits a ear ere born and w t Wh , h ; pp , v thr hea revo vin ear . H is histor so e ou y l , g ch l g y P U B LI SH E D F O R T H E A U T H O R B Y B L PP N COTT co. 1, . I I 1 8 7 5 . ntered a ord n to Act of on ess in the ear 1 8 b E , cc i g C gr , y 74, y H O Y LE LE ST E R , hfli f hf n e in In t e O ce o t e Librar an o o r ss at Was on i C g h gt . T H IS W O R K R E SP E C T F U LLY D E D I C A T E D T M Y O W ORTH Y FR IEN D , T . RAN J. D E, WIT H OUT H IS KN OWLED GE OR CON SEN T ; OFFER IN G IS SIM P LY A T ESTIMON IAL OF K IN D LY FEELIN GS EN TERTA IN ED FOR H O Y LE LE S T E R . T O T H E R E A D E R . FOR f I convenience of re erence, deem it necessary T to insert a Chronological able , which gives the com putations of various parties who have devoted much time to this subject, which is denominated the short , or w received chronology, and the long chronology, hich gives the dates of the principal periods from the crea tion of the world to the birth of Christ . C H RON O LOG ICAL TA BLE. SH O RT SY STEM . LO N G SY STEM . ( 1 ] ss er . H a es . Poo e . U h 33 l L121? l B C . C . B . C . B . C . B . C . B . C . B . C reation 4004 3983 4 1 38 5 41 1 5 426 5 42 1 Flood 2349 23 2 7 2 482 3 1 5 5 3 1 7 0 3 1 5 9 C all of Abraham 1 92 1 1 961 2 05 5 2 07 8 2 02 3 2082 Exodus 1 491 1 5 3 1 1 62 5 1 648 1 5 93 1 65 2 Fou ndation of Tern 1 01 2 1 01 3 1 027 101 4 1 01 0 D estru ction of Tem 5 88 5 89 5 87 5 86 5 86 5 86 ’ Archbishop Ussher s computation , as above , has u been universally adopted , as fo nd in the margin of the authorized English version of the Bible . 8 CH R ON OLO GICAL TAB LE S. And for the satisfaction of those who take an inter est in the ancient history of Egypt , and who may wish I to refer to the pyramidal period of the old empire , ’ have concluded to in sert Manetho s system of Egyptian as chronology . Many of the ante historical dyn ties are omitted , when the Egyptians claimed to be ruled over by gods and demigods ; and we will begin at the epoch 15 of Menes, or Man , which the commencement of the historical period of the thirty dynasties . — s as . B . Fir t Dyn ty Accession of Menes, began 3 893 C . T - hird Dynasty . Commenced the monumental pe riod . — Fourth Dynasty . Pyramids and tombs extant, be 2 C . gan 3 4 6 B . — . 1 00 B C . Fifth Dynasty Began about 3 . — . 2 0 B C . Seventh Dynasty Began about 9 0 . T — . C . enth Dynasty Began about 25 00 B . T - E 2 C . welfth Dynasty nds about 1 24 B . T — E 2 1 0 B C . hirteenth Dynasty nds about 0 . — Fourteenth , Fifteenth, Sixteenth Dynasty . Hyksos, 2000 B C . 1 0 B . C or shepherd kings, from . to 5 9 . Th e new empire or restoration succeeds — s . Seventeenth Dyna ty Began 1 67 1 B . C . T — E hirtieth Dynasty . nds on second Persian inva 0 B . sion , 3 4 C E 2 B C . gypt conquered by Alexander, 3 3 . — . 2 C . Ptolemaic Dynasty Began 3 3 B . as — E Ptolemaic Dyn ty nds 44 B . C . — R . 0 B C oman Dynasty Began 3 . P R E E F A C . TH E n re intellect of man is progressive , and can ot main stationary while science marks out the line of progress , and Revelation does not forbid our going forward in the work of investigation . That the earth is much older than our wisest sages were once willing to admit is a fact which science reveals to us almost daily, and which the theologian unites with us in establishing in a way not at variance with Divine revelation . Th e Bible and Science move together harmoniously , and where there are seeming inconsistencies there can be no controversy . Our interpretation of Scripture is either incorrect and needs modification to place it in harmony with the progress of Science , or else the sci entist has failed in his deductions, and presents a dogma which has an existence only in theory and not in fact . Who believed fifty years ago that the lightnings of heaven would be used to transmit our messages from s zone to zone , and from the sea to the uttermost part 9 E Io PREFA C . i . of the earth ? And yet Job declares , in chap . xxxvi i n n 35 , Ca st thou send lightni gs, that they may go , The and say unto thee , Here we are same may be said in regard to the powers of steam , when Job de scribes Leviathan as emitting flames from his nostrils and plowing the vas ty deep , until his pathway becomes hoary with phosphorescent light . Science reveals to us the revolutions of all the planets upon their axes, and a myriad of worlds beyond our own system . Gen . i . 4, 5 And God divided the light from the dark ness . And God called the light Day, and the darkness " T he . called Night here is no want of harmony in all this, and yet how slow was the Christian world in adopting this new system of astronomy ! Th e unity of the human race is comparatively a new has n theory, which been stro gly maintained by the H E h . ow translators of the nglis version of the Bible ever, the ancient world , and the Jews particularly, be lieved h f firmly in t e diversity of the human amily and all nations under the sun , and in every age, who have 1 held intercourse with the dark races, have regarded them as distinct in character, and as constituting in tellec tually an inferior type of the genus homo . L A . H . C O N T N T S E . C H RON OLOGICAL TABLES ‘ C H A P T E R I. A am not thF d e irst M an E II C H A P T R . The r er f a O d o Cre tion C H A P T E R I I I . Who Tem te Eve p d ? C H A P T E R IV . Ev M iscegenation and its. Attendant ils C H A P T E R V . The Delu e and its T ra tion g di C H A P T E R V I. thrumana T r es om are M an and e ! uad ib c p d C H A P T E R V II. The M a a l y P R V C H A T E I I I . The Ame an In an ric di 1 2 CON TE N TS. E IX C H A P T R . The M on o an g li C H A P T E R hau as an T e C c i A P T E R X I C H . H r t o o and Se e t on yb idi y. C l r, l c i C H A P T E R X II. — Children of H am not N egroes Settlement of Egypt H A P T E R X I C I I . he T e R ion of the a lig R ces H A P T E R X IV C . Geology H A P T E R X V C . Language H A P T E R X V I C . Thra e Is elites H A P T E R X V C I I . The Batt e of A l rmageddon THE PRE- ADAMITE . T E R C H A P I . A AM N OT TH E FIRST MAN D . Together let us beat this ample field ; T r w at the o en w at the overt e y h p , h c yi ld The atent tr the t a s e s e or l ck , giddy h igh xpl e, " O f all hn e — w o re or s t ess soar PO E bli dly c p igh l .