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fellow-creatures, in other parts of the earth." But there was none such. The order was issued to our first parents, when they were the only human beings on the earth, and there were, consequently, no other human beings to be subdued, and the order is in the present tense relating necessarily to immediate action, "subdue the earth and have dominion, &c." Or does the Author consider the order to subdue the earth as an order to cultivate it? But that cannot be the sense; because the order was issued to our first Parents when they were in a state of innocence and God was in the act of blessing them: whereas the order to "till the earth: was not issued until after the fall, and it was then issued as a curse and a punishment for their offence. It was on account of his past sin, and to prevent any farther aggravation of it, that man was expelled from Paradise. "Therefore, the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken". (Gen: 3.23.) Such is the origin of the boasted claims of agriculture. In there any thing in the sacred volume which marks a preference of this employment to any other? The first children were Cain and Abel: "And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground." The curse, therefore, falls directly on Cain. Which was the favorite of the Almighty? Whose offering was accepted? "And the Lord had respect to Abel and his offering: But unto Cain and his offering He had not respect." The shepherd it seems was preferred to the agriculturist; and in a fit of jealousy & envy, Cain rose up against his brother and slew him; just as some European agriculturists, pursuing the example of this proto-type, have risen up against their nomadic brethren of America & slain them. The fratricide seems not to have been approved by the Almighty, for he says to Cain "and now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand; when thou tillest the ground it shall not yield unto thee her strength: a fugitive & a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth." (Gen. 4, 11&12.) But this writer, belonging to a school whose boast it is to be able to look on blood & carnage with composure, sees nothing wrong in the fratricide acts of the