The Creation Deluge, According to a New Theory #251284

Having inculcated the doctrine that war, pestilence, famine, sickness and many other evils, are the result of the ignorance, folly or wickedness of mankind, and not special acts offlivine Providence; and having inti mated that preparatory legislation is needed (in antici patiou of the great change which 1s approaching; we had prepared an additional chapter, g1v1ng instances of the one, and containing an abstract of the other; together with such reasons and reflections concerning the same, as appeared to be necessary; but, finding justice could not be done to the subject, to the reader or to the writer, within the limits proper for an adden dum, and that it would partake more of the nature of a treatise upon political economy, than of a philoso phical inquiry into the phenomena of the Creation and Deluge as applied to the cosmogeny of the Bible — the insertion has been reluctantly omitted.