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was born in Egypt, a country of high culture for that 

 time, that he was educated under the guardianship of 

 Pharaoh's daughter, and that he grew up in the Egyp- 

 tian court. Bred under such conditions he was no doult 

 a man of learning, having been surrounded from infancy 

 by the most learned scholars of the age. The taber- 

 nacle of the covenant constructed by him plainly proves 

 that he was familiar with the laws of physics and elec- 

 tricity. The astrology of that time occupied the place 

 of modern astronomy and, beyond question, the syste- 

 matic movement of the stars was known to contempo- 

 rary Egyptain science. Moses then, himself, thoroughly 

 understood what he describes in the book of Genesis. 



We ask then how did he look upon God's world,. 

 Everywhere he regards it, we find, as a world of living 

 intelligent creatures. 



On different days of creation God formed the sun moon 

 and stars, the fish and the birds, the man Adam and the 

 woman Eve, all living beings passessing the faculties ot 

 Reason and of Will. And now look at what is said in 

 Genesis specifically touching the creation of the earth 

 itself: "In the third day God separated the water 

 from the earth, and commanded the earth to bring forth 

 grass and herb". 



The word commanded clearly intimates the animal life 

 of the world, since in commanding any one to do any- 

 thing it is assumed that the being who is commanded 

 can listen and obey. On the independant reasonable 

 existence of the earth, our labourers and our luminaries 

 in the world of science have never dwelt; they have 

 never even looked at the earth from that point of view 

 which it is my intention to occupy in the present re- 

 search. It is of this cosmic reason that I have now to- 

 speak. 



