Others are so far from defining the Original of the World or of mankind, that they have held opinions not only repugnant unto Chronology, but Philosophy; that is, that they had their beginning in the soil where they inhabited; assuming or receiving appellations conformable unto such conceits. [SN: _Why the_ Athenians _did wear a golden Insect upon their head._] So did the _Athenians_, term themselves αὐτοχθόνες or _Aborigines_, and in testimony thereof did wear a golden Insect on their heads: the same name is also given unto the Inlanders, or _Midland_ inhabitants of this Island by _Cæsar_. But this is a conceit answerable unto the generation of the Giants; not admittable in Philosophy, much less in Divinity, which distinctly informeth we are all the seed of _Adam_, that the whole world perished unto eight persons before the flood, and was after peopled by the _Colonies_ of the sons of _Noah_. There was therefore never any _Autochthon_, or man arising from the earth but _Adam_; for the Woman being formed out of the rib, was once removed from earth, and framed from that Element under incarnation. And so although her production were not by copulation, yet was it in a manner seminal: For if in every part from whence the seed doth flow, there be contained the Idea of the whole; there was a seminality and contracted _Adam_ in the rib, which by the information of a soul, was individuated into _Eve_. And therefore this conceit applied unto the Original of man, and the beginning of the world, is more justly appropriable unto its end. For then indeed men shall rise out of the earth: the graves shall shoot up their concealed seeds, and in that great Autumn, men shall spring up, and awake from their Chaos again. Others have been so blind in deducing the Original of things, or delivering their own beginnings, that when it hath fallen into controversie, they have not recurred unto Chronologie or the Records of time: but betaken themselves unto probabilities, and the conjecturalities of Philosophy. Thus when the two ancient Nations, _Egyptians_ and _Scythians_, contended for antiquity, the _Egyptians_ pleaded their antiquity from the fertility of their soil, [SN: Diodor. Justin.] inferring that men there first inhabited, where they were with most facility sustained; and such a land did they conceive was _Egypt_.