Old-time schools and school-books . f- JfflelPviWt§ WmWrn^i j/hwKBki ?*-! ! 1 i -Jsfi ^^^ -^^ iSiSPiki^fe^H: ^^^y^l^jt^^if^L tat? ~S, *». //SBfe^^wSuiflB ^^^^^^^H >% tL^cJSiMiiy&jFS us ^ <Sr^ - -S^^^^^^^s WM^^y s£ \ -^ J Landing of Frosts/4 History 0/the United States, 1837. of the Creation, about 5829 years ago, and thenmentions, as a matter of curiosity, a few theoriesof philosophers and others which do not agree withthe Bible narrative. I quote two of these theoriesand add a few paragraphs from subsequent pages ofthe book about Adam and Eve. The negroes of the Congo affi
Old-time schools and school-books . f- JfflelPviWt§ WmWrn^i j/hwKBki ?*-! ! 1 i -Jsfi ^^^ -^^ iSiSPiki^fe^H: ^^^y^l^jt^^if^L tat? ~S, *». //SBfe^^wSuiflB ^^^^^^^H >% tL^cJSiMiiy&jFS us ^ <Sr^ - -S^^^^^^^s WM^^y s£ \ -^ J Landing of Frosts/4 History 0/the United States, 1837. of the Creation, about 5829 years ago, and thenmentions, as a matter of curiosity, a few theoriesof philosophers and others which do not agree withthe Bible narrative. I quote two of these theoriesand add a few paragraphs from subsequent pages ofthe book about Adam and Eve. The negroes of the Congo affirm that the world wasmade by the hands of angels, excepting their own coun-try, which the Supreme Being constructed himself; thathe took great pains with the inhabitants, and made themvery black and beautiful ; and when he had finished thefirst man, he was well pleased with him, and smoothedhim over the face ; and hence his nose, and the noses ofall his descendants became flat. Grammars, Histories, and Minor Text-books 377. Conflagration of Butlers Sketches of Universal History, 1818. Darwin, an infidel, in accounting for the origin of theworld, supposes that the mass of chaos suddenly exploded,like a barrel of gunpowder, and in that act exploded the 378 Old-time Schools and School-books sun, which in its flight, by a similar convulsion, explodedthe earth, which in like manner exploded the moon, andthus, by a chain of explosions, the whole solar system wasproduced and set in regular motion. Adam and Eve, the names of the first human pair,were placed by the Diety, in the garden of Eden. It isevident that Eden was east of Canaan ; but the most ex-travagant opinions have been entertained on this subject,and not only the four quarters of the globe, but even the
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