HUXLEY ON THE PENTATEUCH.
—■ —♦ My belief, on the contrary, is, and long has been, that (he Pentateucbal story of cieation is simply a myth. I suppose it to be an hypothesis respecting the origin of the universe which some ancient thinker found himself able to reconcile with his knowledge, or what he thought was knowledge, of the nature of things, and therefore assumed it to be true. As such, I hold it to be not merely an interesting, but a venerable monument of a stage in the mental progress of mankind, and I find it difficult to suppose that anyone who is acquainted with the cosmogonies of other natious—and especially with those of the Egyptians and Babylonians, with whom the Israelites were iu such frequent and intimate communication—should consider it to possess either more or less scientific importance than may be alloted to these.—Professor T. H. Huxley, in Popular Science Monthly.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2995, 9 June 1886, Page 3
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