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principles being agreed on. And as the rationalistic doctrines, and 
a priori theories laid down by the Proceedings' author, are totally 
opposed to my inductive gatherings of what are the characteristics 
of the only generally admitted example of Divine Inspiration, viz., 
the Sacred Scriptures,— I decline to argue that part of the question 
with that gentleman at all. 
To the Society, therefore, only would I appeal,— after what they 
have already printed and published, — earnestly inquiring of them 
why they patronize arguments which, if of force against the sup- 
posed primeval, and pre-Biblical, Inspiration of the design of the 
Great Pyramid, are of equal force against the Bible itself? 
How, for instance, can it be justly maintained by those who hold 
to the Bible, that A1 Mamoon’s breaking into the Great Pyramid, 
and exercising a power over it, to injure it, — proves the structure 
not to have been built originally by Divine Inspiration,— when the 
Bible relates that the Temple of Solomon, though actually so built, 
or according to plans furnished in number and measure by Divine 
Inspiration, was nevertheless destroyed by the Babylonians, and its 
sacred vessels carried away, to be used in the service of idols; and 
now, together with the Ark of the Covenant, they have vanished 
from the surface of the earth ? 
Does any one venture to assert that A1 Mamoon “ upset the 
“ miracle of the Great Pyramid by, as some say, unveiling, a thou- 
“ sand years before the appointed time, the contents of the King’s 
“ Chamber?” Let such persons first prove that A1 Mamoon did 
unveil, or even see, any of those contents which are supposed to 
have been above the powers of unassisted men to have constructed 
intentionally at the date of the Pyramid’s foundation,— -viz., the 
earth and heaven commensurabilities of the Pyramid’s several parts. 
These proportions have only begun to be thus recognized, so far as 
I know, within the last 10 years ; and A1 Mamoon no more saw 
them or published them to the world, when he broke into the 
Pyramid by brute violence in 830 a.d., — than did Pompey, when 
he burst into the Holy of Holies in Jerusalem, see that presence 
into which he would have forced himself impiously. 
Does the critic object,— that modern men find such exceeding 
difficulty in trying to ascertain the exact lengths and breadths of 
the various symbolical parts of the Pyramid, — that they settle, and 
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