Excerpt from The Family Magazine, or Monthly Abstract of General Knowledge, 1843, Vol. 1 The conclusions to be deduced from the foregoing considerations are, that the existing state of things ha not been eternal, and consequently, that we are to look for a beginning to history; that the general agreement subsisting between the Mosaic cosmogony and those of the various nations of the world, some of whom, from time immemorial have had no communication with one another, shows, that one has not copied from another. But that they must have derived their ideas from one common, ancestral source; that th superiority of the Mosaic account to the traditions w ich have a general agreement with it, shows the former to be the ceramics! One; that its immense superiority to those of the wisest philosophers of antiquity, gives it a decided preference as a system, to theirs; and that its agreement with rea son and philosophy. Relative to the great particular of the direct origination of things by an omnipotent Being. Without the intervention of a chain of intermediate causes, entitles it to credence on its own intrinsic merits, independent of its superiority to others. To sum up the whole in a single sentence, there is reason to believe that the Mosaic account of the creation of the universe, contained in the first chapter of Genesis, is authentic. 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.