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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1792. Excerpt: ... Of j.j LBTT£'RS ON From these quotations, and analogical connections, I fofer, that, although l6 Sanchoniathon, Berasus, Manetho, and a few other ancient historians, whose fragments have been preserved by Eusebius, Joscphus, Alexander Polyhistor, Cyncellus," and some others of the more early Christian writers, mould give evidence in favour of the universal extent of the Savage State, yet, after all, very httle regard is due to their testimony. On the other hand, my Lord, one might,'I believe, draw together l8 a 16 Euseb. Prcp. Evang. 1. i-V»S-3-',nfcim' £ that this author blames the son of Thab.on, and the toer hierologists for sophisticating all the: genuine ccount of the origin of the universe, and of the mst.tutions of religion, with fiction and allegory..7 Justin Martyr, Clem. Alexand. Arnobms, Epiphanius, Eusebius, Lactantius, Theophilus, Mm. "fSefNote preceding, to which we may add all Ac modern authors who have writtea in defence of revealed '"li',on-whole whole cloud of witnesses to confront the patrons of the Savage State. These have maintained that there was, from time immemorial, a select race,---a civilized society, a centre of politeness, science, and humanity established in the world. Your Lordship will be soon convinced that I do not mean the nation of the Israelites: their influence, in the present case, I disclaim on many accounts-r I shall only beg leave to observe, that the Mosaic cosmogony is, at least, as rational as the Mothak; and that the authorities collected by the father of the Christian church, as well as by modern Divines, in support of the former, and the history connected with it, are as ancient, as numerous, and, perhaps, more conformable to the analogy of reason, than these C 2 produced Let. produced agains...
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