nformed his outward
actions to sovereign justice. Far from all duplicity and
falsehood, his soul received marvelous felicity from heaven,
and the purest delights from earth."

Another says:

"A delicious _garden_ refreshed with zephyrs, and planted with
odoriferous trees, was situated in the middle of a mountain,
which was the avenue of heaven. The _waters_ that moistened it
flowed from a source called the '_Fountain of Immortality_'.
He who drinks of it never dies. Thence flowed _four rivers_. A
Golden River, betwixt the South and East, a Red River, between
the North and East, the River of the Lamb between the North
and West."

The animal Kaiming guards the entrance.

Partly by an undue thirst for knowledge, and partly by increasing
sensuality, and the seduction of _woman_, man fell. Then passion and
lust ruled in the human mind, and war with the animals began. In one of
the Chinese sacred volumes, called the Chi-King, it is said that:

"All was subject to man at first, _but a woman threw us into
slavery_. The wise husband raised up a bulwark of walls, _but
the woman, by an ambitious desire of knowledge, demolished
them_. Our misery did not come from heaven, _but from a
woman_. _She lost the human race._ Ah, unhappy _Poo See!_ thou
kindled the fire that consumes us, and which is every day
augmenting. Our misery has lasted many ages. _The world is
lost._ Vice overflows all things like a mortal poison."[15:1]

Thus we see that the Chinese are no strangers to the doctrine of
original sin. It is their invariable belief that man is a fallen being;
admitted by them from time immemorial.

The inhabitants of _Madagascar_ had a legend similar to the Eden story,
which is related as follows:

"The first man was created of the _dust of the earth_, and was
placed in a _garden_, where he was subject to none of the ills
which now affect mortality; he was also free from all bodily
appetites, and though surrounded by delicious _fruit_ and
limpid _streams_ yet felt no desire to taste of the fruit or
to quaff the water. The Creator had, moreover, _strictly
forbid him either to eat or to drink_. The great enemy,
however, came to him, and painted to him, in glowing colors,
the sweetness of the apple, and the lusciousness of the date,
and the succulence of the orange."

After resisting