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I a,m much obliged to Mr. Tuokwell also for his kind remarks. T 

 wish I had time to work out all the inscriptions that come to my 

 hands. There are so many of them, but I hope to do a great deal 

 of work in the near future. Like art, study is long and time is 

 short. I think with him that the Bible — the Old Testament — has 

 nothing to fear from the Code of Hammurabi. I do not myself 

 think that it can be proved, by any means, that the Laws of Moses 

 were derived from Babylonia. Every country would naturally have 

 its own code of laws, and that they should borrow from one another 

 is conceivable and quite natural. That has been done constantly. 

 Every country has laws that seem to the legislature of that country 

 to be most suitable for it, and so with Assyria, the Holy Land, and 

 the nations around. 



A vote of thanks to the author having been carried, the meeting 

 adjourned. 



