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Show Garden of Eden The origin of the various races of the world Is a matter of mere speculation. spec-ulation. Textbooks of ethnology mention different theories of the formation of races as the result of climatic and geographic conditions. The nero race evidently developed In Africa, negroes being mentioned in Egyptian manuscripts as early as 2000 B. C. The most usual explanation explana-tion of the location of the Garden of Eden Is that It was ln the modern mod-ern Irak In Asia, between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris, somewhere near the city of Babylon. The Brit-annica Brit-annica article on the subject says that the attempt to locate a mythological mytho-logical garden is bound to be attended at-tended by considerable difficulty, and all that can be safely said is that the story In its present form combines two traditions, one ol which places the garden in the fat north, where according to Babylonian Baby-lonian tradition, the garden of the gods was to be found. |