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I believe, for I have confessed it, that my theory is based on 

 Imagination, not on proved fact. I have no faith in inductive 

 reasoning, as I think you will allow I have shown all along. 



I believe that there is no Supreme Governor of the Universe, 

 though Laplace has shown by the calculation of probabilities that 

 it is four millions to a unit that the motions of the planets have 

 been directed by a " First Great Cause," and nearly two millions 

 to one that there was such, rather than that the sun will rise at a 

 given moment of any given day. I have spoken. 



I believe, because Huxley says so, that the Pyramids were 

 built on the mud of the Nile deposited at a very slow rate, the 

 fact being that it is deposited in enormous quantities in a short 

 space of tune. Is it not as broad as it's long ? as I have 

 elsewhere said. 



I believe that the horse was tamed 19337 years B.C., though 

 history relates that it was not introduced into ^Egypt till the aera 

 of the Shepherd Kings. " What man has done, man may do." 



I believe that religion is a novelty, though in the " Book of the 

 Dead," perhaps the oldest book in the world, the future life is 

 clearly spoken of as well as the doctrine of a future state of 

 rewards and punishments. 



I believe what I have just said, although the Sphinx, " the 

 father of terror," is found to have belonged to a range of temples, 

 looking out as it does on the vast desert around with its cold 

 impassive face, unmoved by the wreck and ruin of the old world, 

 age after age. 



I believe so, I say, although it is shown that Horus was, in 

 those ancient days, a type of the Resurrection, as Osiris, restored 

 to life by Isis, a symbol from the sun setting down in darkness 

 and rising up again in glory. 



I believe so, although there are some most excellent precepts 

 of morality in the Papyrus Prisse, in the Royal Library of Paris, 

 written between 3300 and 3400 B.C. 



I believe, for I cannot help it, that the proportion throughout 

 the whole of nature, between males and females, is very 

 wonderful, and if you ask me what Natural Selection has had to 

 do with it, all I can say is Excuse me you understand 

 Excuse me. " Wonders never cease," you know. 



