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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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th thosewho handed down in unbroken hne this subhme truth from,the long-lost Eden, the Egyptians were not alone. Thosemarvelous books of the ancient Hindus, embodying theearliest system of philosophy which we possess, reveal a Centuries before Abraham was born, Egypt andBabylonia were alike full of schools and libraries,of teachers and pupils, of poets and prose-writers,and of the literary wor^s which they had com-posed.— A. H. Sayce. similar state of affairs, as do the clay tablets of ancientBabylonia. The religion of the Veda knows no idols, says MaxMiiller; the worship of idols in India is a secondary for-mation, a degradation of the more primitive worship ofideal gods. The following, also, from the Duke of Argyll, is to thepoint: — We have found in the most ancient records of the Aryanlanguage proof that the indications of religious thought arehigher, simpler, and purer as we go back in time, until atlast, in the very oldest compositions of human speech which 48 GODS TWO BOOKS
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A. H. SAYCE (1846- ) Professor in Oxford University, England Probably the most accomplished living authority on the in-scriptions recovered from the ancient civilizations of the Orient.He started out in life as a Higher Critic, but his discoveriesin the inscriptions confirming the Old Testament records soonturned him face about, until perhaps no single writer has doneso much to bring discredit upon not only the results but themethods of the Critics as this versatile and Protean scholar.It is supremely amusing to see how Professor Cheyne ( Found- GODS TWO BOOKS 49 have come down to us, we find the Divine Being spokenof in the subHme language which forms the opening of theLords prayer. ... All we can see with certainty is that the earliest inven-tions of mankind are the most wonderful that the race hasever known. The first use of fire; the discovery of the methods bywhich it can be kindled; the domestication of wild animals;and, above all, the processes by which the various cereals(oats

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