On the Connection Between Geology and the Pentateuch
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ISBN13: 9780217735759
Paperback|9780217735759
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: from remote ages and ignorant people; for any narrator is at liberty to tell the story in his own way; there is none to check or correct him; each narrator may forget, may tax his imagination to supply imperfect recollection?may add, alter, or diminish, without being subject to any means of detection. Accuracy in historical narration, is the result of high literary civilization. Among the very numerous private conversations and transactions contained in the book of Genesis for instance, where there was, and could have been no witness?who can authenticate them? If it be said they were supernaturally communicated, who can prove this? You cannot prove it from the book itself, for you must first prove the genuine and authentic character of the book itself?you must show that it is entitled to credit from its scrupulous accuracy as to evidence, before it can become authority. It is not sufficient proof that tho story of Aladdin, or of Sinbad the Sailor, in the Arabian Nights' entertainments arc true, because the story teller relates it. Who is the story teller? Where, and when, md how did ho get his facts? Who knows the author of Genesis. Tradition is no authority whatever for detail, even where it may be admitted as evidence of some general fact. Suppose a man (of acknowledged veracity tells you, that he heard his grandfather Richard, say that ghosts, apparitions and miracles were very common about a century before he was born, as ho (Richard) had frequently heard from his grandfather. It is no evidence of the supposed ghosts and apparitions. 8th. Hence, in the present day, no man pretends to appeal to any history that does not acccurately cite its authorities. 9th. Even the best compiled histories are but imperfect evidence as to details and motives. The opinion of Sir Walter...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217735759 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217735754 |
| Weight | 0.28 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.19 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 78 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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