Preadamites

Strictly speaking, the expression ought to be limited to denote men who had perished before the creation of Adam; but commonly even Coadamites are called Preadamites, provided they spring from a stock older than

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

( "Preadamites," p. 161.) "The Arabs distinguished mankind into two races, one red, ruddy, the other black."

Atlantis : the antediluvian world Ignatius Donnelly 1866

(Winchell's "Preadamites," p. 120.) "In the time of Menes the Egyptians had long been architects, sculptors, painters, mythologists, and theologians."

Atlantis : the antediluvian world Ignatius Donnelly 1866

( "Preadamites," p. 443.) "The Libyan-Amazons of Diodorus -- that is to say, the Libyans of the

Atlantis : the antediluvian world Ignatius Donnelly 1866

Extravagances of the Apocalyptics, Preadamites, who would base extravagant opinions on Scripture will, for example, base them on this.

Pens��es 1623-1662 1944

In either case, or even in the combination of both, the existence of Preadamites depends on a new non-scientific premise, which is at best only an assumption.

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

The question whether we can admit the existence of Preadamites in the strict sense of the word, i.e. the existence of a human race

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

But the case is quite different with regard to the view upholding the existence of Preadamites taken in the common acceptation of the term.

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

Naturally, then, in this new atmosphere the bolder scholars of Europe soon began to push mnore vigorously the researches begun centuries before by Aben Ezra, and the next efforts of these men were seen about the middle of the seventeenth century, when Hobbes, in his Leviathan, and La Pevrere, in his Preadamites, took them up and developed them still further.

A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom 1896

Professor Winchell says ( "The Preadamites," p. 437):

Atlantis : the antediluvian world Ignatius Donnelly 1866