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unexpected and confirmatory light of a fact which, he avers, is of 
“ extraordinary importance, and possesses a ramifying influence 
through many departments of religious life and progress.” 
He believes, also, that the corner-stone — so frequently alluded to 
by the Psalmist and the Apostles as a symbol of the Messiah — is 
the head or corner-stone of the G-reat Pyramid, which, though long 
ago removed, may yet possibly, he thinks, be discovered in the 
Cave of Machpelah; though how, why, or wherefore it should have 
found its way to that distant and special locality is not in any 
way solved or suggested. 
Pyramid alleged, to be a Superhuman , and more or less an Inspired 
Metrological Erection. 
Professor Smyth holds the Great Pyramid to be in its emblems 
and intentions and work “superhuman;” as “not altogether of 
human origination ; and in that case whereto ” (he asks) “ should 
we look for any human assistance to men but from Divine inspira- 
tion?” “Its metrology is,” he conceives, “directed by a higher 
Power ” than man ; its erection “ directed by the fiat of Infinite 
Wisdom;” and the whole “built under the direction of chosen 
men divinely inspired from on high for this purpose.” 
If of this Divine origin, the work should be absolutely perfect; 
but, as owned by Professor Smyth, the structure is not entirely 
correct in its orientation, in its squareness, &c., &c. — all of them 
matters proving that it is human, and not superhuman. It was, 
Professor Smyth further alleges, intended to convey standards of 
measures to all times down to, and perhaps beyond, these latter 
days, “to herald in some of those accompaniments of the promised 
millennial peace and goodwill to all men.” Hence, if thus miracu- 
lous in its foreseen uses, it ought to have remained relatively perfect 
till now. But “ what feature of the pyramid is there ” (asks 
Professor Smyth) “ which renders at once in its measurements in 
the present day its ancient proportions? None.” If the pyramid 
were a miracle of this kind, then the Arabian Caliph El Mamoon so 
far upset the supposititious miracle a thousand years ago — (of course 
he could not have done so provided the miracle had been truly 
Divine)— -when he broke into the King’s Chamber and unveiled its 
contents; inasmuch as the builders, according to Professor Smyth, 
