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PREFACE.
I have aimed in preparing this work to put intocompact and orderly form a large amount of irrefragable evidenceagainst the superstitions of the church. I have often felt the need ofsuch a work for my own use. The matter herewith presented has beenculled from some of the ablest writers living and dead. As a book ofreference I hope it may be a valuable aid to all investigators andtruthseekers. Its running head lines, chapter heads, subheads, andclassified subjects make it a “handbook.”
San Francisco.
January 10, 1890. [5]
CREATION.
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.(Gen.1 : 1.)
No sooner do we read this sentence than we find ourminds full of perplexing questions. Quite naturally we ask in the“beginning” of what? It could not mean in the beginning ofGod, for it is supposed that he had no beginning; it could not mean thebeginning of eternity, as that is without commencement or end, and itcould not have been in the beginning of matter as it is eternal. Ifthen matter is eternal, the story about the creation of the heaven andth