and parcel of the earliest form of dualism, gives a great support to the old theory that Genesis embodies the original tradition which came down from the first parents of the race, while the beliefs of other nations are simply modifications or corruptions of this early tradition. But there are those who, while admitting the priority and genuineness of the narrative in Genesis, maintain that it is nothing but a pictorial representation, and is designed merely to show that our first parents were subjected
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