The cause why the Curse was not bestowed upon _all_ the children of Ham, and their descendants, may be as follows:--viz., Noah's last _grandson_ was _Canaan_, and being born in the very dotage of Noah (for he had no child of _his own_ after the Deluge), it is natural, therefore, that his youngest grandson (and which was the sixteenth) would be the object of his aged fondness,--(as Jacob loved Joseph, being "the son of his old age,")--this must have been known to his Sons and their children, and when his person was violated by _his own and youngest son_--the Patriarch--to give greater power to his curse of indignation, cast it upon the dearest object of his doting love,--reasoning thus: viz., "_My_ youngest _son_ hath wronged me,--therefore, _his_ youngest _son_ shall suffer." We do not say his youngest _child_, for that might have been a Daughter,--and the Daughters of Noah, or those of his three Sons are not mentioned in the Bible, although Noah's "_Wife_" "and his Sons' _Wives_" are. The same Sacred Historian has omitted any mention of the immediate Daughters of Adam,--and it is evident they must have been born before the birth of Eve's third son,--Seth,--for "Cain knew his Wife, and she conceived and bare Enoch." Now the Wife of Cain must have been his own _Sister_,--while the grandsons of Noah must have married their Cousins,--or perhaps Sisters. Some sceptical writers have believed that many "Adams and Eves" were placed simultaneously in different parts of the globe:--if not, they say, "they (people) must have married their Sisters." If such disbelievers had travelled through even the paths of history, they would have found that such was actually the custom, even after the Deluge. Abram's Wife,--Sarah,--was his own Step-Sister. It was practised in Egypt, and thought no crime,--from the monarch to the peasant:--but, the progress of Religion and Civilization, with their attendant radiant blessings dispelled the darkness, and destroyed the degenerating custom. Intellect was, also, thereby rescued from gradual but certain decay: for experience has proved, that the nearer the blood relationship of man and wife, the more distant are children of such marriages from intellectual or physical endowments. This slight digression is introduced merely to shew that MOSES omitted, in more than the instance of Eve (previous to the birth of her third son), to mention the birth of Daughters,--they are _understood_ to have been born,--attendant upon Nature,--like the bright beams from the Sun!--but, the first Historian was anxious only to record the _Sons_ of Men,--as being the recognised founders of the several branches of the human family. However unjust must be viewed Noah's curse upon an innocent object,--viz., his grandson--Canaan,--most truly and terribly has that malediction been accomplished.