[72] Lenormant, "Manuel d'Histoire Ancienne," i. 23, makes a similar suggestion as to this point--"La texte de la Bible n'a rien qui s'oppose formellement à l'hypothèse que Noè aurait eu, postérieurement au deluge, d'autres enfants que Sem, Cham, et Japhet, d'où seraient sorties les races qui ne figurent pas dans la généalogie de ces trois personnages." But two objections seem to me to be fatal to this view. The races about whom this difficulty would be raised would be the red and black races: why should it be surmised that the supposed posterity of Noah, after the Deluge, _should_ have this mark of inferiority? In the second place, it does seem to be formally opposed to Gen. x. 32--"These are the _families_ of _Noe_, according to their peoples and nations. _By these_ were the nations divided on the earth after the flood." The red races might perhaps be accounted for by Gen. xxv. 23-25. [73] There appears to me, however, a text to which attention might be directed. We know that the Ethiopians were black, but in Amos ix. 7, where God is expressing His anger against His people, He says, "Are you not as the children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel, saith the Lord." I am very far from claiming for these theories any special ecclesiastical countenance and authority. I have already intimated my opinion that, on the whole, they would be as much opposed from the point of view of scriptural exegesis as from that of unbelief. It will be said, for instance, that there is evidence in Scripture of the curse of Canaan, but no proof that blackness was the concomitant effect of the curse; and certainly it is not Scripture which affirms this, but only tradition. To those who admit the curse, but deny the consequences which tradition attributes to it, I would oppose an almost identical argument with that which accounts for all differences in the human race by geographical location. I do not know where this argument is more forcibly put than in Latham's "Ethnology." There it is seemingly demonstrated that certain conditions, not merely of colour, but moral and intellectual, are the inseparable accompaniments of geographical location. Grant it, _pro argumento_, but I am arguing now upon the scriptural evidence, and with one with whom I assume I have a common belief in its inspiration.