He held that in the golden age men and beasts all spoke the same language, but that Zeus confounded their speech because men were proud and demanded eternal youth and immortality.( 413) (413) For the identification of the Tower of Babel with the "Birs Nimrad" amid the ruins of the city of Borsippa, see Rawlinson; also Schrader, The Cuneiform Inscriptions and the Old Testament, London, 1885, pp.

106-112 and following; and especially George Smith, Assyrian Discoveries, p.59.For some of these inscriptions discovered and read by George Smith, see his Chaldean Account of Genesis, new York, 1876, pp.

160-162.

For the statement regarding the origin of the word Babel, see Ersch and Gruber, article Babylon; also the Rev.Prof.A.H.

Sayce in the latest edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica; also Colenso, Pentateuch Examined, part iv, p.