But, to go on with our subject: We read in the Bible that it came to pass when _men_ began to multiply, etc., that the sons of God saw the daughters of _men_, that they were fair, and they took themselves wives of all which they chose. A word or two of criticism before we proceed. In this quotation the word _men_ is correctly translated from the Hebrew, and as it applies to the negro, it is not in the original applied to Adam, for then it would be _the_ men, Adam and his race being so distinguished by God himself, when Adam was created. Again, the _daughters_ of _men_ were _fair_. The word _fair_ is not a correct rendering of the original, except as it covers simply the _idea_, captivating, enticing, seductive. With this explanation we proceed, and in proceeding we will show these criticisms to be just and proper. Who were these sons of God? Were they from heaven? If they were, then their morals were sadly out of order. Were they angels? Then it is very plain they never got back to heaven: nor are wicked angels ever sent to earth from heaven. And they are not on earth for the angels that sinned, are confined where there is certainly no water; and these were all _drowned_. And angels can not be drowned. Angels belong to heaven, and if they do anything wrong there, they are sent, not to earth, but to--tophet. They are not the sons of men from _below_, nor its angels; for these could not be called sons of God. Who were they then? We answer, without the fear of successful contradiction, that they were the sons of Adam and Eve, thus denominated by _pre-eminence_; and as they truly were, the sons of God, to show the horrible _crime_ of their criminal association with _beasts_. Immortal beings allying themselves with the beasts of the earth. These daughters of _men_ were _negroes_, and these sons of God, were the children of Adam and Eve, as we shall see presently, and beyond a shade of doubt.