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of this outside kernel, underneath them ail these beliefs 

 are found to a greater or less extent, which agree with those 

 of the rest of the world. 



That a belief in a deluge exists all over the world, because 

 man wanted to have such belief, often a» a punishment for 

 sin ; that he believes himself a sinner, prays for forgiveness, 

 offers sacrifices of the most precious kind, even human life, 

 having the highest class of people as priests, and the most 

 valuable buildings for this purpose ; and that some believe in 

 a hell, because man wanted to believe himself a sinner, and 

 ivanted to be punished in the endless future, all this is not in 

 accordance Avith reason. The facts both among heathen and 

 civilized people are the other way, and man only accepts this 

 because his conscience tells him it is true, after he has learned 

 it from some one. For if it is innate, why do not all heathen 

 have this belief? if innate it would not have been lost by 

 some peoples as soon as it has been ; indeed, it would not 

 have been lost at all. 



If it is not innate among the heathen, those of America or 

 the islands of the ocean, there is no more evidence to believe 

 it to be innate among the civilized people of America or 

 Europe, as their ancestors were once as heathenish and savage 

 as many of those whom we have now been considering. Nay, 

 as civilization traces back the history of these ideas to their 

 beginning, it acknowledges that the evidence plainly shows, 

 that they came from those who had a clear perception of the 

 True God. Hence I see no way but to also acknowledge that 

 these same ideas came to the heathen of the Pacific Ocean 

 from the same source. And if they formerly had intercourse 

 with those who received them from God in prehistoric times, 

 it cannot be proven, as far as I can see, that they did not 

 descend from some of those people ; it cannot be proven that 

 there were different centres of creation. Hence it is a science 

 based on facts outside of the Bible, though it agrees with 

 that book, that God did make " of one blood all nations to 

 dwell on the face of the earth," and that these ideas are 

 vital or they Avould not have lived through all the thousands 

 of miles Avhere they have so strangely travelled, and through 

 all the thousands of years during which they have existed. 



