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[Page 76]

The manners I wish it however to be understood that all the earlier history of the Bible could only have been derived from tradition, yet but this involves no contradiction. - That unnerving wisdom which as so providentially provided for the exingencies of man, ordained that the first generations of mankind should live for centuries. Adam attained to an age exceeding nine hundred years. Had it been otherwise the world at this day would only be a chaos of confusion - Adam could convey to his immediate posterity of exceeding the occurrences from the creation down to succeeding centuriers, and his long experience enable him to afford necessary instruction to those who were subsequently born. It is therefore I say that I rely with perfect confidence on the Mosaic account of the early periods of the world.

When letters were invented - when man could communicate their Ideas with faul facility and promulgate acquired knowledge to each other, the necessity of long existence ceased to exist to exist.

[Margin note is only half decipherable]

 

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