alike. Since this request was in harmony with God’s will for the preservation of moral purity, He granted it.51 If the request had not been in harmony, Noah’s curse would have had no result. Canaan, then, is the prototype of the population that succumbed to enervating influences and was doomed by its vices to enslavement at the hands of hardier and more virtuous races.52 Because Ham, the “father” of Canaan, had desecrated the honor of his father by seeing his uncovered nakedness, this divine and