the opinion that Adam, Eve, the antediluvians, the Jews, the old prophets and patriarchs, were all white men, most assuredly; but this is a mistake, as is evident from the foregoing. Adam, therefore, in his primitive condition, before he had fallen, and covered his limbs with clothing, was a glorious personage to look upon — being of a bright ruddy red, like an image of gigantic size, formed of native copper, instinct with life and motion. Thus, when he moved in the groves of Paradise, he glowed in the sun's rays like some celestial being, gathering from the down bending limbs of the trees the ripe but newly created fruit. Such was Eve, also, his heaven-made bride, though less in stature and more delicately shaped. From her head, formed so as no Greek could sculpture the Parian marble, there fell a silken shower, the black and glossy tresses of her hair (like the glory of the heads of angels, as written by St. Paul), far below her sylph-like waist, enshrouding all her person as with a robe, in the gleamy tissues of attenuated jet, while through this, as the winds softly whispered and played therewith, was seen the bright and fulgent limbs of the first of woman kind. Every motion of her agile form showed her to be the immediate work of God, while the red flush of health, and immortal vigor, mantled her bosom and whole person, like the deep tints of the early sun, flashing athwart the disc of a cloud, varying every moment as she changed her attitudes, and as the various passions of her sinless soul mingled and flowed through her being.
But Adam was of a mightier cast; all the powers
