Preadamite

Most probably, far away in the Preadamite periods, when these mountains were much loftier than to-day, they were cloven and pierced by volcanic fires, and then into their innumerable vents and fissures infiltrated the molten quartz and the base and precious metals.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 Various

The pro-slavery sentiment prevalent in certain parts of America indirectly supported such Preadamite theories.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

Preadamite theory, but leaves no room for doubt as to Julian the

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

From the great number of men, from their racial varieties, from the difference of languages, we cannot even infer that all men cannot spring from a common stock, while the ancient national traditions of the Oriental nations, and the palæontological finds do not even show that the human race existed before our Biblical times; much less do these premises furnish any solid basis for the Preadamite theory.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

They maintain that Adam is the progenitor of the Caucasian race, while the other races descend from Preadamite ancestry, having either a common or various parentage.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

Again, those "who have not sinned after the similitude of the transgression of Adam" are the Preadamite Gentiles.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

The author also claims that ancient Jewish and Mohammedan tradition favours his Preadamite theory.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

According to the nature of the arguments advanced in favour of the heretical Preadamite theory, we may divide it into scientific and

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

The races of the old Ideals have become extinct like the Preadamite

Short Studies on Great Subjects James Anthony Froude 1856

Reminiscences of early days, even those that were Preadamite; referring, we mean, to those times in the almshouse, which he could not at ordinary times remember at all; but now there seemed to be visions of old women and men, and pallid girls, and little dirty boys, which could only be referred to that epoch.

Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834