of what she had seen in the first. Thus the first family was broken up, and the first gap in the circle of human society was made by murder. The race moved on, multiplying into families, but the shadow of the issue of sin was on the whole of them, and with one rare exception through fifteen centuries the knell of death was heard unceasingly. As families multiplied and branched out into many directions, the new relationship of society was created. From the original man two lines proceeded, one through