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consider themselves entitled to settle thereby, that the structure 
could not have had an all-wise prompter, planner, or designer ; — let 
the critic confess whether there are not many words and passages 
both in the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures, on which neither divines 
nor scholars have yet been able to come to a full understanding, 
and where they are still bringing forth their various readings ! 
Or, because the Great Pyramid has not been successfully inter- 
preted by mankind during so long a period as 4000 years; or because, 
during all that space of time its presumed mission has not been 
accomplished in the world, and so many centuries have passed 
away fruitlessly since the seed was sown, in an age before any 
human intellectual history began, — shall that be considered a good 
Biblical reason against there having been Inspiration at the begin- 
ning, and against a Divinely intended result still to appear, — seeing 
that the Bible has announced many prophecies, which are not yet 
fulfilled ; and tells us repeatedly of mysteries which were prepared 
for, from the very beginning of the world, and yet only made 
manifest in latter times? 
But I will not attempt to follow any further, or to set in order, 
the arguments of which there are so many, connected with Kevealed 
religion ; — for I am too much grieved and humbled to find, that the 
most conscientious labours and the justest deductions that I have 
been working at for years past, and whereby I had hoped to be instru- 
mental in affording to some other earnest thinkers a ray of light 
on a sacred, as well as a scientific, topic, — have issued before the 
Society merely in this, that my labours, their subject, and my friend’s 
religious convictions have all been dragged contemptuously in the 
dirt, and made a mockery of, in the fearful manner accomplished 
by the Proceedings' author. 
Of Revealed Religion therefore I will not presume to say more in 
this assembly : and I hope pardon may be extended to me for 
what I have said, if imperfectly, or mistakenly, yet with the best 
intentions. 
But I would beg, before concluding, to remind the members, one 
and all, of a remark by the notable Kepler, bearing on Natural 
Theology. The existing state of our Great Pyramid knowledge is 
very similar to what prevailed with regard to astronomy in the time 
of that acutest genius of mediaeval Germany ; for, observations were 
