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HISTORY OF THE CREATION

AND

THE PATRIARCHS;

OR,

PENTATEUCHISM,

ANALYTICALLY TREATED.

VOLUME FIRST.

THE BOOK OF GENESIS.

LONDON:

JOHN CHAPMAN, KING WILLIAM STREET, STRAND.

M.DCCC.LX.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY WOODFALL AND KINDER,
ANGEL COURT, SKINNER STREET.

Rest. Nov. 15, 1872.

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SCRIPTURAL LEGENDS

OF

CHALDEAN ORIGIN.

INTRODUCTION.

GALILEO was condemned to expiate, in the dungeons. of the Inquisition, the sin of giving publicity to a scientific fact which impugned the authority of Scripture. A life of astronomical research had satisfied his luminous mind that the sun was stationary, and that the earth performed her revolution around the parent luminary. He did not conceal the scientific discovery. The religious world were astounded. It could not be ! The sacred Scripture was superior to the revelations of science; and Scripture asserted the direct contrary. It was the sun moved, and not the earth; and the unhappy philosopher was doomed to recant his blasphemous assertion, muttering, however, between his teeth, as he quitted the gloomy portals of his prison, 'Eppur si muove."

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The day of Galileo's triumph has long since received its consummation. The philosopher was right; and the earth is now known to be one of the planetary bodies of the solar system, governed by an orbital motion. The truth of science finds early registry; and if the onward course of the earth's progress is placed beyond the pale of doubt, so also is the onward pro

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