2i8 GEOLOGY AND HISTORY 



logical and archaeological discovery to attach more 

 and more value and importance to the ancient records 

 of the human race, and especially to those precious 

 documents which have been preserved to our time in 

 the Book of Genesis. 



We have merely glanced cursorily at a few of the 

 salient points of the relation of the primitive history 

 of man in Genesis to modern scientific discovery. 

 Many other details might have been adduced as 

 tending to show similar coincidences of these two 

 distinct lines of evidence. Enough has, however, 

 been said to indicate the remarkable manner in which 

 the history in Genesis has anticipated modern dis- 

 covery, and to show that this ancient book is in every 

 way trustworthy, and as remote as possible from the 

 myths and legends of ancient heathenism, while it 

 shows the historical origin of beliefs which in more or 

 less corrupted forms lie at the foundations of the oldest 

 religions of the Gentiles, and find their true significance 

 in that of the Hebrews. To the Christian the record 

 in Genesis has a still higher value, as constituting 

 those historical groundworks of the plan of salvation 

 to which our Lord Himself so often referred, and on 

 which He founded so much of His teaching. 



