of his body and mind being more dauntless and masculine, decision and force sat enthroned on his face, beamed in his eye, and was redolent on every limb, well fitted and formed to become the head of the newly made world, and the race of gigantic nations of the antediluvians, whose lives reached for many ages — the vast amount of nearly a thousand years. Such was the first man and woman of the human race, but were somewhat changed by the entrance of sin, which not only affected the hearts and natures of Adam and Eve and their race, but tinged the beauty of their complexion, changing it from a bright florid red to the dark hue of common copper, and awfully agreed with the still darker passions of their fallen souls, who, in this image, brought forth their progeny red in complexion, and beclouded in mind.
Thus God ordained, and this was surely right,
That the first man should not be black nor white,
But of a copper hue, a gloomy red,
Half way between the two, our primal head.
