“I will put enmity between thee (the serpent) and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.”[319] Pinning their faith upon the literal fulfilment of these terms, which told them that the _female, as such_, would be the unaided author of a _being_, whose healing effects would restore them to the inheritance so heedlessly forfeited, their veneration for that _symbol_ of divine interposition became correspondingly unbounded; and their enthusiasm for the principle of its strict verification was what engendered the thought that in the general procreating scheme the _yoni_ was the _vivifier_. The _Tuath_-de-danaans or Lingajas, on the other hand, were not less satisfied in their security; but looking upon the terms with a more _spiritual_ interpretation, and led by the operation of ordinary _physics_ to consider the question as a _deviation_ from the _general rule_, they erected the symbol of _male_ capability as the standard of their doctrine. And thus, while the zeal of both parties shook the very framework of society, yet did they _concur_ in all the _essentials_ of their respective religions; and even the particulars of that _prospect_ by which they were both sustained, instead of operating as an exception to the universality of this truth, only confirm its import. The Jews, who were but _newly_ brought forward upon the stage, and who, in the inscrutable councils of heaven, were selected as the objects of God’s immediate superintendence, being informed of the tenour of the paradisaical hope, abused it more wantonly than ever did the _Pish_-de-danaans or the _Tuath_-de-danaans. Unable to comprehend, from their narrow mental calibre, any _agency_ in the form of a divine _emanation_, and yet fancying, each of them, that she would herself be the mother of the expected Redeemer, their women indulged in all the lusts of _desire_, and, where no opportunity offered for licensed gratification, revelled in the arms of incest. This alone can apologise for that intensity of passion, exceeding even the dictates of natural thirst, and unrestrained by the consideration of decency or consanguinity, whereof we read in the Old Testament, respecting the Israelitish daughters;[320] while it also demonstrates that the _carnality_ of their souls did not allow them thoroughly to understand the precise nature of the _favour_ designed. Far otherwise the case with the _intellectual_ races, which they were now appointed to supersede.