Account--Fastidiousness of Adam in the Choice of a Helpmeet--Dr. Adam Clark's Commentary--Dr. Scott's Guess--Dr. Matthew Henry's Admission--The Blonde and Brunette Problem--The Result of Unbelief and the Reward of Faith--"Give Him a Harp"--XVI. The Garden--Location of Eden--The Four Rivers--The Tree of Knowledge--Andover Appealed To--XVII. The Fall--The Serpent--Dr. Adam Clark Gives a Zoological Explanation--Dr. Henry Dissents--Whence This Serpent?--XVIII. Dampness--A Race of Giants--Wickedness of Mankind--An Ark Constructed--A Universal Flood Indicated--Animals Probably Admitted to the Ark--How Did They Get There?--Problem of Food and Service--A Shoreless Sea Covered with Innumerable Dead--Drs. Clark and Henry on the Situation--The Ark Takes Ground--New Difficulties--Noah's Sacrifice--The Rainbow as a Memorandum--Babylonian, Egyptian, and Indian Legends of a Flood--XIX. Bacchus and Babel--Interest Attaching to Noah--Where Did Our First Parents and the Serpent Acquire a Common Language?--Babel and the Confusion of Tongues--XX. Faith in Filth--Immodesty of Biblical Diction--XXI. The Hebrews--God's Promises to Abraham--The Sojourning of Israel in Egypt--Marvelous Increase--Moses and Aaron--XXII. The Plagues--Competitive Miracle Working--Defeat of the Local Magicians--XXIII. The Flight Out of Egypt--Three Million People in a Desert--Destruction of Pharaoh ana His Host--Manna--A Superfluity of Quails--Rev. Alexander Cruden's Commentary--Hornets as Allies of the Israelites--Durability of the Clothing of the Jewish People--An Ointment Monopoly--Consecration of Priests--The Crime of Becoming a Mother--The Ten Commandments--Medical Ideas of Jehovah--Character of the God of the Pentateuch--XXIV. Confess and Avoid--XXV. "Inspired" Slavery--XXVI. "Inspired" Marriage-XXVII. "Inspired" War-XXVIII. "Inspired" Religious Liberty--XXIX. Conclusion. SOME REASONS WHY. (1881.)