PROFESSOR HUXLEY ON THE BIBLE
" I have baen Benonaly perplexed to know," aayß Haxley, "how the religious feeling, which ia the ecsen^aA 0} c nduct, can be kept up without the Qse of the Bible. For three centuries this book has been woven into the life of all that is bcßt and noblest In English history. It forbidß the verießt herd who never leffc ' his village to be Ignorant of the existence cf other countries and other civil zitione, i and a great prat Btretching bsok to the farthest Hrailoof the oldest nations m the : world.. By the study of- what other book ' »*ould chiT'rea be co much humanised and i made to feel that eacH figure' in the vast ' historical procession fill?, like themselves. ' but a momenary Interspace m the interval 1 between two eternities, and earns the 1 blessings or the curses of all kind, accord* | ing to its efforts to do good and hate evil, even as they also ' are earning th;» i piyment for thnif work?
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1613, 19 July 1887, Page 3
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170PROFESSOR HUXLEY ON THE BIBLE Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1613, 19 July 1887, Page 3
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