It must not be supposed that women, as they are now, are at all comparable to Eve in her pristine beauty; on this point the Talmud says: “All women in respect of Sarah are like monkeys in respect of men. But Sarah can no more be compared to Eve than can a monkey be compared with a man. In like manner it may be said, if any comparison could be drawn between Eve and Adam, she stood to him in the same relation of beauty as does a monkey to a man; but if you were to compare Adam with God, Adam would be the monkey, and God the man.”[59] Literary ladies may point to the primal mother as the first authoress; for a Gospel of Eve existed in the times of S. Epiphanius, who mentions it as being in repute among the Gnostics.[60] And the Mussulmans attribute to her a volume of Prophecies which were written at her dictation by the Angel Raphael.[61] All ladies will be glad to learn that there is a tradition, Manichean, it is true, and anathematized by S. Clement, which nevertheless contains a large element of truth; it is to this effect, that Adam, when made, was like a beast, coarse, rude, and inanimate, but that from Eve he received his upright position, his polish, and his spirituality.[62] Footnote 37: It is unfortunate that I have already written on the myths relating to the formation of Eve in “Curiosities of Olden Times.” I would therefore have omitted a chapter which must repeat what has been already published, but that by so doing I should leave this work imperfect. However, there is much in this chapter which was not in the article referred to. Footnote 38: Rabboth, fol. 20 b. Footnote 39: Eisenmenger, i. 830. Footnote 40: Weil, pp. 17, 18. Footnote 41: Tabari, i. c. xxvi. Footnote 42: Talmud, Tract Berachoth, f. 61; Bartolocci, Bibl. Rabbin., iv. p. 66. Footnote 43: Bartolocci, Bibl. Rabbin., iv. p. 67. Footnote 44: Ibid., iii. p. 395. Footnote 45: Bartolocci, Bibl. Rabbin., iii. p. 396; Eisenmenger, t. i. p. 365. Footnote 46: Bhagavat, iii. 12, 51. Footnote 47: Colebrooke, Miscell. Essays, p. i. 64. Footnote 48: Bun-dehesch, p. 377. Footnote 49: Bartolocci, Bibl. Rabbin., iv. p. 465. Footnote 50: Mendez Pinto, Voyages, ii. p. 178. Footnote 51: Bhagavat, iii. 12, 25. Footnote 52: Bhagavat, iv. 15, 27. Footnote 53: Ovid, Metamorph., x. 7. Footnote 54: Hesiod, Works and Days, 61-79. Footnote 55: Gen. i. 27. Footnote 56: Gen. ii. 18. Footnote 57: Gen. ii. 23. Footnote 58: Abraham Ecchellensis. Hist. Arabum, p. 268. Footnote 59: Talmud, Tract. Bava Bathra. Footnote 60: S. Epiphan. Hæres., xxvi. Footnote 61: Tho. Bangius, Cœlum Orientis, p. 103. Footnote 62: S. Clementi Recog., c. iv. IV. THE FALL OF MAN.