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creation. Selection straightened his facial angle
and enlarged his brain pan. His raucous cry of
wrath and fear grew into articulate sounds and
words. He learned to tame fire. Slowly he
evolved into man. His cubs sucked the blood
from the palpitating flesh of the animals he had
slain, and fought among themselves like hungry
wolflings for the marrowbones his formidable
jaws had cracked and strewn about his cave.
So they grew up, strong and fierce like himself,
bent on prey, eager to attack and devour any
living thing that crossed their path, even were
it one of their own foster brothers. The forest
trembled at their approach, the fear of man was
born amongst the animals. Soon, infuriated by
their lust of murder, they started slaying one
another with their stone axes. The ferocious
war began, the war which has never ceased.
“Anger shone in the eyes of the Lord, He
repented having created man. And the Lord said:
“‘I will destroy man from the face of the
earth, corrupt as he is and full of violence.’
“He ordered the fountains of the great deep
to be broken up and the windows of Heaven to
be opened to engulf man and the world he had
polluted with blood and crime. Would that He
had drowned them all! But in His faithful
mercy He willed their world to emerge once more
cleansed and purified by the waters of the Flood.
The curse remained in the seed of the few of the
doomed race He had suffered to remain in the
Ark. The murder began again, the never ceasing
war was let loose once more.
“God looked on with infinite patience,
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