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Title: God's two books; or, Plain facts about evolution, geology, and the Bible
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Price, George McCready, 1870-1963
Subjects: Religion and science Evolution
Publisher: Washington, Review and Herald
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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erful. But with a little further thought itwill be seen that we have in these arts, or discoveries, orwhatever we choose to call them, the broad and efficientfoundations of civilized life, without which civilization ofany kind (in our present state of climate, etc.) is impos-sible. But when we put with this the very important addi-tional fact that civilization is always an inheritance, that inno single case since the dawn of history has a savage raceever thrown off its savagery, and developed an agriculturallife and a civilization of and among themselves, withouthaving learned it from some other people, we see the recordsof Genesis confirmed, and realize that man did not start on ers of Old Testament Criticism, pages 231-241) almost begs himto be a good boy and come back to them (the Critics), andthink of the good (?) to scientific criticism his talents mightaccomplish by so doing. For answer the reader ought to studySayces Monument Facts and Higher Critical Fancies. 50 GODS TWO BOOKS
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GODS TWO BOOKS 51 this earth as a savage, but only a little lower than theangels. Through luxury and loss of moral self-control,nations have time and again relapsed into barbarism, orsemi-barbarism; but the moral development which must nec-essarily precede civiHzation has never yet been self-origi-nated by any people in any age. As, in biology, life cancome only from antecedent life, so are civilization and moraldevelopment only received from those who already possessthem. Returning now to the problem of the domestic animalsand plants referred to in the above-quoted words of theDuke of Argyll, we have, we think, proof absolutely con-clusive that they must first have been acquired by man inthat vastly more favorable climate and soil of the ancientworld, before the great world-catastrophe of the deluge.The most common domestic food plants are not found wildin any spot on earth, and will not long survive without hu-man care in any climate or soil that we now possess.Where did they come f

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