Nature And Man Before And After The Deluge

Excerpt from Nature and Man Before and After the Deluge: Being a Brief Defence of the Literal Reading of the First Ten Chapters of Genesis In the second chapter of Genesis we read, for the Loan god had not caused it to rain upon the cart and in immediate connection, But there went up a moist from the earth, and watered tire whole face of like grownd. The reader will please note, that we etahoe'ze certain words in our quota tions from the Sacred record, to draw and fix his attention, because these and like passages will be taken up or referred to again, as we proceed in the elucidation of the subject. In looking back toward the past, through the long vista of ages, - obscured to human perception by its remoteness, -f0r a solution of the how and the when, -the period and the manner, of the Begin ning of Things, we require a data, and a ground whereon reason may take her stand, fand survey, as from an elevation, the otherwise incomprehensible scene. That data and that, stafid-point is the Jew ish Scriptures. There is no other volume in the world which reveals to man the true g0d[ the crea tion of the heavens and the earth; and his own quickening, fearfully and wonderfully made, whereby the clod of the valley, touched by the breath of the divine spirit, was transmuted into a living soul. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

After the Flood illuminates the hidden role and complicated legacy of religion in the emergence of a global environmental consciousness.

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