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Excerpt from The Pentateuch and Its Authority: A Review of "the Pentateuch and Book of Joshua Critically Examined by the Right Rev. John William Colenso, D.D., Bishop of Natal"
In such a state of mind, crushing out of memory secret misgivings as to the truth of Scripture, and with all his great responsibilities upon his shoulders, the new Bishop went to his distant heathen diocese. How long that state of mind continued we are' not told, though we are made acquainted with the circumstances which again roused the Old difficulties to the surface. We take the account given in the preface While translating the story of the Flood, I have had a simple-minded but intelligent native - One with the docility of a child, but the reasoning powers of mature age - look up and ask, Is all that true? DO you really believe that all this happened thus, that all the beasts and birds and creeping things upon the earth, large and small, from hot countries and cold, came thus I)? 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.
