 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1860 - 590 pages
...total darkness over the whole earth for eight days. Suppose that the tradition of this extraordinary event is still strong and lively among the people...that our present philosophers, instead of doubting the fact, ought to receive it as certain, and ought to search for the causes whence it might be derived.... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1864 - 572 pages
...total darkness over the whole earth for eight days ; suppose that the tradition of this extraordinary event is still strong and lively among the people;...travellers who return from foreign countries bring in accounts of the same tradition without the least variation or contradiction ; — it is evident... | |
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Thus, suppose, all authors, in all languages agree that from the first of January 1600 there was a total darkness over the whole earth for eight days: Suppose that the tradition of this extraordinary event is still strong and lively among the people:... 
