Excerpt from Social History of the Races of Mankind: Third Division, Aoneo-MaranoniansThere are numerous men of scientific attainments, who cannot shake off the trammels of education, and being deficient in moral courage, they dare not contradict the accepted, conventional, superstitious ideas and opinions. They take the Bible, which they consider as a divine revelation, as their text-book, and they insist that all mankind are the direct descendants of a legendary first pair, generally known as Adam and Eve, both having been created or produced by a kind of divine selection in a so-called paradise situated somewhere in Asia. These men obtain the elements of their geological knowledge from the Mosaic account of creation and the flood they base their ethnology upon the legendary genealogy of Genesis their philology on the legend of the Tower of Babel; and they derive their principles of astronomy from the astounding miracle of Joshua who made the sun and moon stand still.Men in their primitive state, when they knew nothing of ocean navigation when the surface of the globe was only scantily peopled men were no more voluntarily migratory than the animals that sur rounded them. They naturally but slowly spread by excessive multi plication but they were always attached to the land of their birth.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.