Most important of all, the recent discoveries in Assyria have thrown a new light upon the evolution of the dogma of "the fall of man." Reverent scholars like George Smith, Sayce, Delitzsch, Jensen, Schrader, and their compeers have found in the Ninevite records the undoubted source of that form of the fall legend which was adopted by the Hebrews and by them transmitted to Christianity.( 193) (193) For Mr.Southall's views, see his Recent Origin of Man, p.

20 and elsewhere.

For Mr.Gosse'e views, see his Omphalos as cited in the chapter on Geology in this work.

For a summary of the work of Arcelin, Hamy, Lenormant, Richard, Lubbock, Mook, and Haynes, see Mortillet, Le Prehistorique, passim.

As to Zittel's discovery, see Oscar Fraas's Aus dem Orient, Stuttgart, 1878.