This approximates toward harmony with the reported results of the Indian chronology which locates the creation B. C. 6174; also the ♦Babylonian, B. C. 6158, and the Chinese, B. C. 6157――the excess of the latter above the longest sacred chronology being only 530 years. The approach toward harmony in these three not sacred chronologies――the Indian, the ♦Babylonian and the Chinese――the extreme difference being only 17 years――is certainly a remarkable fact. CHAPTER IV. THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN RESUMED. AS to the antiquity of Egyptian art, civilization and political power, there are two main questions: 1. _How much time, after Noah, is required?_ 2. _How much can be allowed in harmony with the most reliable authorities of Hebrew chronology?_ 1. Under the head of _time required_, it is in place to note the circumstances which favored the very rapid growth of Egyptian civilization and also of the numerical and political power of Egypt. (a) Mizraim, the father of Egypt, who gave his name to the kingdom, was a grandson of Noah and the father of seven sons (Gen. 10: 1, 6, 13, 14). Consequently he started _early and strong_. (b) The fertility of the Nile valley was prodigious; it was capable, therefore, of sustaining an immense population, and so would attract other people besides the lineal descendants of Mizraim. Every thing was propitious for the early and rapid peopling of their country. (c) Fixed residence, coupled with cheap bread and abundance of it, put the Egyptian on vantage-ground above any other ancient nation for the early culture of art and for rapid growth in all that made Egypt great. (d) It is a capital mistake to assume that the arts and sciences _were originated_ in Egypt after the flood, and that therefore a very long time must be allowed for their growth and development up from utter barbarism. For there was surely no insignificant amount of art and science among the builders of Noah’s ark. The yet earlier history of the race names “the father of all such as handle the harp and organ,” and also “an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron” (Gen. 4: 21, 22). (e) It is a significant fact that the Chaldean tradition of the deluge as preserved by Berosus sets forth the special care taken by Noah to preserve and transmit to the new-born nations after the flood the arts and sciences which had been developed before that catastrophe. They say he was admonished to put in writing an account of these arts and sciences and deposit it in a place of safety until the flood should be past. This tradition reveals the fact of a current belief that there was such knowledge to be preserved, and that means were used to preserve it.