The other sons of Ham settled Egypt and Assyria, and, conjointly with Shem, Persia, and afterward, to some extent, the Grecian and Roman empires.  The history of these nations gives no verification of the prophecy.  Whereas, the history of Canaan’s descendants for more than three thousand years, records its fulfilment.  First, they were put to tribute by the Israelites; then by the Medes and Persians; then by the Macedonians, Grecians and Romans, successively; and finally, were subjected by the Ottoman dynasty, where they yet remain.  Thus Canaan has been for ages the servant mainly of Shem and Japhet, and secondarily of the other sons of Ham.  It may still be objected, that though Canaan alone is named in the curse, yet the 23d and 24th verses show the posterity of Ham in general to be meant.  “And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.”  “And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his YOUNGER son had done unto him, and said,” &c.  It is argued that this “younger son” can not be Canaan, as he was the grandson of Noah, and therefore it must be Ham. We answer, whoever that “younger son” was, Canaan alone was named in the curse.  Besides, the Hebrew word Ben, signifies son, grandson, or any of one the posterity of an individual. “Know ye Laban the SON of Nahor?” Laban was the grandson of Nahor.  Gen. xxix. 5. “Mephibosheth the SON of Saul.” 2 Sam. xix. 24.  Mephibosheth was the grandson of Saul. 2 Sam. ix. 6. “There is a SON born to Naomi.” Ruth iv. 17.  This was the son of Ruth, the daughter-in-law of Naomi. “Let seven men of his (Saul’s) SONS be delivered unto us.” 2 Sam. xxi. 6.  Seven of Saul’s grandsons were delivered up. “Laban rose up and kissed his SONS.” Gen. xxi. 55.  These were his grandsons. “The driving of Jehu the SON of Nimshi.” 2 Kings ix. 20.  Jehu was the grandson of Nimshi.  Shall we forbid the inspired writer to use the same word when speaking of Noah’s grandson?  Further; Ham was not the “younger” son.  The order of enumeration makes him the second son.  If it be said that Bible usage varies, the order of birth not always being observed in enumerations, the reply is, that, enumeration in that order is the rule, in any other order the exception.  Besides, if a younger member of a family, takes precedence of older ones in the family record, it is a mark of pre-eminence, either in endowments, or providential instrumentality.  Abraham, though sixty years younger than his eldest brother, stands first in the family genealogy.  Nothing in Ham’s history shows him pre-eminent; besides, the Hebrew word Hakkatan rendered “the younger,” means the little, small.  The same word is used in Isa. xl. 22. “A LITTLE ONE shall become a thousand.”  Isa. xxii. 24. “All vessels of SMALL quantity.”  Ps. cxv.