LESSON I.—Nature of sin; the primal transgression, 433, 434.
LESSON II.—The occupation and doom of Cain, 435, 436.
LESSON III.—The mark upon Cain, Mohammedan traditions, 437, 438;
proof-texts from Scripture, 439, 440.
LESSON IV.—The punishment of Cain did not lead him to reformation, 440;
Asiatic hyperbole in description, 441, 442.
LESSON V.—The cause of Cain’s degradation renewed upon Canaan, and his
masters named, 442, 443.
LESSON VI.—Proofs that the descendants of Ham inherited the curse of
Cain, and were black, as also were the Canaanites whom God’s chosen
people either exterminated or enslaved, 443 to 447.
LESSON VII.—The negro lineage of Ham established, 447 to 451.
LESSON VIII.—Signification of the name “Naamah” in Hebrew and Arabic,
451 to 455.
LESSON IX.—Variations in different languages of the names of Cain and
Naamah, also of other remarkable words, 456 to 458.
LESSON X.—The names and derivatives of the words Cain and Naamah found
only among the descendants of Ham, 459 to 464.
LESSON XI.—Proofs scriptural and historical that the descendants of Ham
were black, 464 to 470.
LESSON XII.—Biblical proofs that the Canaanites were black, 471 to 473.
LESSON XIII.—Scriptural testimony respecting the colour of the races of
the human family, 473 to 477.
LESSON XIV.—Jewish wars against the Ethiopian race; the Philistines
black, 478, 479; the origin of these wars the animosity between the
Shemitic and Hamitic races, 480; difference in the structure of the
bones and the hair between the antagonist races, 481; intermarriage
with the Hamitic by the Shemitic race a cause of God’s anger, 482;
the dispersion of the Canaanites by the Jewish conquest of
Palestine, 482.
LESSON XV.—Derivation and train of thought connected with the word Ham
in the Shemitic languages, 483 to 487; the Hebrew personal pronoun,
488 to 491; origin of the word Ethiopian, 493 to 495.
LESSON XVI.—Hebrew, Syriac, Greek, and Coptic derivations of the word
Ham, 495 to 502.
LESSON XVII.—Exegesis of the thirty-third chapter of Ecclesiasticus, 502
to 503; the providence of God manifested in placing deteriorated
races under the control of races less debased, 504, 505.