Against this literal fulfilment of Gen. ix. 25--"Cursed be Canaan, a servant of servants shall he be to his brethren"--as regards the Indian Sudra, the text in Gen. x. 19--"And the limits of Chanaan were from Sidon ... to Gaza ... even to Sesa"--may be objected. But I construe this text only to refer to Chanaan proper, and to be spoken rather with reference to the limits of the Promised Land and the Hebrews, than to the allocation of the tribes of Chanaan; for the text immediately preceding seems to me to have its significance--viz. Gen. x. 18,[39] where it is said in a marked manner, and of the descendants of Chanaan alone, "The families of the Canaanites were spread abroad." But if we are to suppose the whole descent of Chanaan to have been confined between the limits of Sidon and Sesa, it could hardly have been said to have had the diffusion of the other Hamitic races, and the _families_ of the Chanaanites will not have been "spread abroad" in any noticeable or striking manner. It appears to me, also, that it may be proved in another way. St Paul, Acts xiii. 19, says that God destroyed _seven_ nations in the land of Chanaan, whereas Gen. x. enumerates eleven. [39] Homer's expression (Od. i. 23, 24), that the Ethiopians divided in twain, were the _most remote_ of men-- [Greek: "Athiopas, toi dichtha dedaiatai eschatoi andrôn, Hoi men dysomenoi Yperionos oi d' aniontos,"] approximates to the scriptural phrase, and seems to imply a wider dispersion than is suggested by Professor Rawlinson, i. 59. Again, Kalisch ("Hist. and Crit. Com. on Old Testament," trans. 1858) makes it a difficulty against Gen. ix. that "Canaan _should_ not only fall into the hands of Shem, _i.e._ the people of Israel, but also of _Japhet_" (i. 226). A remote fulfilment of the prediction may be seen in the Median conquest of Phoenicia, and the Roman destruction of Carthage; but if I have truly indicated the order of events, it will be seen that it had already come about in the earliest times. The text, indeed, of Gen. ix. 27--"May God enlarge Japhet, and may he dwell in the tents of Shem, and Canaan be his servant"--is so clear as almost to require some such fulfilment. But the fulfilment is seen, not only in the degradation of Chanaan, but in the prosperity of Japhet;[40] and this is so correlative, that I shall still be enforcing the argument whilst connecting a link which may appear to be wanting, viz. the identity of Japhet with the more favoured nations of the world. The identity of the Indo-Germanic races with the descendants of Japhet may almost be said to be a truth "_qui saute aux yeux_," but it may still be worth while to collect the links of tradition which establish it.