APPENDIX. NOTES. 



NOTE 1, p. 2. The life and motion. The word life may 

 perhaps here be used, in some sense, improperly ; but the 

 original motion caused by the agency of the Spirit, and 

 followed by Light and Expansion, may be called the birth, 

 or beginning, of the life of the world, which followed, 

 under the Divine Guidance, as a consequence of it. I 

 speak only of animal life, not of spiritual, which resulted 

 from the immediate insufflation, if I may so use the term, 

 of the Deity himself. 1 



I may here be permitted to observe that the Mosaic 

 account of the beginning of creation, especially of the 

 incubation of the Holy Spirit and its consequences, has 

 been transplanted, by many oriental and occidental 

 nations, into their cosmogonies. The circumstances and 

 consequences of it have, in most cases, been altered from 

 their original simplicity ; and, in some, it has been assumed 

 as a foundation, on which an Atheistic Philosophy has 

 been erected amongst the Greeks. But when we consider 

 attentively the terms in which these dogmata are deli- 

 vered, and recollect that the Gods of the Greeks and 

 Romans, especially him who was invocated as the father 

 of gods and men, were really the great elementary powers 

 which under God govern the universe whence Homer 



1 Genes, ii. 7, comp. John, xx. 22. 



