PRE-ADAMITE, n. One of an experimental and apparently unsatisfactory r… — The Devil's Dictionary

The Devil's Dictionary — Ambrose Bierce

PRE-ADAMITE, n. One of an experimental and apparently unsatisfactory race of antedated Creation and lived under conditions not easily conceived. Melsius believed them to have inhabited "the Void" and to have been something intermediate between fishes and birds. Little its known of them beyond the fact that they supplied Cain with a wife and theologians with a controversy.

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