_Rom. 5:12_—“_Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin; and so death passed unto all men, for that all sinned_”; _19_—“_For as through the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one shall the many be made righteous_”; _1 Cor. 15:21, 22_—“_For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive_”; _Heb. 2:16_—“_For verily not of angels doth he take hold, but he taketh hold of the seed of Abraham._” One of the most eminent ethnologists and anthropologists, Prof. D. G. Brinton, said not long before his death that all scientific research and teaching tended to the conviction that mankind has descended from one pair. (_c_) This descent of humanity from a single pair also constitutes the ground of man’s obligation of natural brotherhood to every member of the race. _Acts 17:26_—“_he made of one every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth_”—here the Rev. Vers. omits the word “_blood_” (“_made of one blood_”—Auth. Vers.). The word to be supplied is possibly “father,” but more probably “body”; _cf._ _Heb. 2:11_—“_for both he that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified are all of one_ [father or body]: _for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, In the midst of the congregation will I sing thy praise._” Winchell, in his Preadamites, has recently revived the theory broached in 1655 by Peyrerius, that there were men before Adam: “Adam is descended from a black race—not the black races from Adam.” Adam is simply “the remotest ancestor to whom the Jews could trace their lineage.... The derivation of Adam from an older human stock is essentially the creation of Adam.” Winchell does not deny the unity of the race, nor the retroactive effect of the atonement upon those who lived before Adam; he simply denies that Adam was the first man. 297—He “regards the Adamic stock as derived from an older and humbler human type,” originally as low in the scale as the present Australian savages.