Identifier: ridpathshistoryo01ridp (find matches)
Title: Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men ..
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history Ethnology
Publisher: New York, Merrill & Baker
Contributing Library: Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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(!>■> Lo jV HIGHLANDS OF ARMENIA.—Drawn by Taylor, after a photograph by Madame Carla Serena. The general belief among the nationsof the West on this subject has been de-The garden rived from the Hebreweastward m Scriptures, constituting the Eden, with its r o four rivers. basis as they do of the religious faith and practice of the Israel-itish race and, in later development, ofthe faith and practice of all the Christiannations of the earth. The account of man need not here be repeated. Itis sufficient to say that the scene of thisbeginning of human life is fixed by therecord as in a garden eastward inEden. It is said that a river wentout of Eden to water the garden; andfrom thence it was parted, and becameinto four heads. The name of the first(that is the first head or river) is Pison:
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THE BIBLICAL PARADISE.—Drawn by Gustave Dure. M.—Vol. I—II 154 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. that is it which compasseth the wholeland of Havilah, where there is gold;and the gold of that land is good: thereis bdellium and onyx stone. And thename of the second river is Gihon: thesame is it that compasseth the wholeland of Ethiopia. And the name of thethird river is Hiddekel: that is it whichgoeth toward the east of Assyria. Andthe fourth river is Euphrates. Herewe have the geographical definition, soto speak, of that place which is describedin Genesis as the scene of the creationof man. But where was the garden of Eden ?Is it possible to lay this ancient sketchDifficulty of fix- of the Scriptures practicallythl Xbifca?6 °f on a map or globe and de-Eden- fine its position? Many have been the efforts of scholars andvisionaries to accomplish this task ofidentifying the ancient Eden with someplace or places now known to men. Inthe first place, it may be observed thatonly one of the four

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