. Outlines of natural theology for the use of the Canadian student [microform] : selected and arranged from the most authentic sources. Natural history; Natural theology; Sciences naturelles; Théologie naturelle. The objectors to the doctrine of unity of the human family adduce as a strong argument against it, that the early appearance of the r egro physiog- nomy on the moDunierual tablets of Egypt render it impossible to sup} r>,!.e that tho change could have been effected i)' so brief a ; fiir?. Few of us can really appreciate the actual duration of eight thou- sand years/' In noticing th
. Outlines of natural theology for the use of the Canadian student [microform] : selected and arranged from the most authentic sources. Natural history; Natural theology; Sciences naturelles; Théologie naturelle. The objectors to the doctrine of unity of the human family adduce as a strong argument against it, that the early appearance of the r egro physiog- nomy on the moDunierual tablets of Egypt render it impossible to sup} r>,!.e that tho change could have been effected i)' so brief a ; fiir?. Few of us can really appreciate the actual duration of eight thou- sand years/' In noticing the changes, some observers * What ;.' Lnvo been the date wjich tue Egyptians asaigued to the creation'^nd t; 10 deluge? Th« day of Uso creation was, according to their traditions, the dav of tiia vernal .> ('linos, as Philo and the Church Patters testify. The sani pianetaiy cai^t .oUatic^i of the commencement of the first age of the -world, alsf. "sveaervod by the Egyptians, refers us, as we have already shewn, to the same day, the vernal equinox of the year 5871 B. C. Furtheriaove, they placed the creation in the year in which Sirius, the dog-star, rose together with the sun, on the day of the vernal equinox, as we are informcil by Porphyry, by iEneas Qazeeus and others. And this again could take place only in the year 5871 B. C. Lastly, we findit stated by the Alexandrian astronomer Theon, that in the year 27 B. C, the sixteenih of the iviga of Augustus, on the 29th of August (the first of the month Thoth) an>:-\'^;ou, 5Sri B. C, which was -vied in the planetary co«>*ellatioM .>ucerning the commencements o' • three fi'-st ages of the world, h( uust have taken shorter years as iii- sis of those periods, of 30,000 •; ad 3984 years, in order to it. ** is great Sothis of 36,625 years the entire history of Egypt down ^ ; 'line. In short, for the purpose of establishing a his- tory of 36,C ?f. jfeAte, ojilled Sothis, ^lanetbo tv .^ed solar years into mont
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