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Page xv
... brought into perpetual collision with the most inveterate prejudices on the one hand , and a certain class of existing facts , 1 claiming affinity with the premises whence follow all our deductions PREFACE PAGE INTRODUCTORY ESSAY.
... brought into perpetual collision with the most inveterate prejudices on the one hand , and a certain class of existing facts , 1 claiming affinity with the premises whence follow all our deductions PREFACE PAGE INTRODUCTORY ESSAY.
Page xvi
... facts , or what are even claimed to be such . It is asserted , then , in opposition to the above , that " if the world was really created in six days , we should find some evi- dences of it in the aspect of nature . Instead of this , we ...
... facts , or what are even claimed to be such . It is asserted , then , in opposition to the above , that " if the world was really created in six days , we should find some evi- dences of it in the aspect of nature . Instead of this , we ...
Page xvii
... facts admitted ( and deny them we cannot ) I ask , of what avail is it to denounce their tendency as atheistical , from their supposed con- travention of the Mosaic cosmogony ? Is not this a premature surrendering up of what may be ...
... facts admitted ( and deny them we cannot ) I ask , of what avail is it to denounce their tendency as atheistical , from their supposed con- travention of the Mosaic cosmogony ? Is not this a premature surrendering up of what may be ...
Page xxv
... fact , that as to every period is as- signed a special purpose in the divine plans of Provi- dence and Redemption ; and as to each belongs some great and appropriate truth ; so any attempt at a com- plete elucidation of it is more than ...
... fact , that as to every period is as- signed a special purpose in the divine plans of Provi- dence and Redemption ; and as to each belongs some great and appropriate truth ; so any attempt at a com- plete elucidation of it is more than ...
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... facts of their history were based upon the oral traditions of the ante - diluvian patriarchs , with which the history . of Moses abounds . To illustrate this point , take the above passage of Philo Biblius , and see how naturally it may ...
... facts of their history were based upon the oral traditions of the ante - diluvian patriarchs , with which the history . of Moses abounds . To illustrate this point , take the above passage of Philo Biblius , and see how naturally it may ...
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