Excerpt from The Mosaic Cosmogony: A Literal Translation of the First Chapter of Genesis, With Annotations and Rationalia The little book which you hold in your hand courteous reader, is designed to obviate and clear away difficulties by affording a correct view of the Mosaic account of the Creation. The religious and intellectual world is not, that I am aware, in possession of accurate Scriptural authority, upon which to proceed to any precise decision upon important and interesting subjects. Men of science are constantly at a loss to determine what they may and what they may not accept, as Divine communication. They are frequently brought up on a sharp curb in their excursions in the pursuit of knowledge. If this had been the design of the Author of all things and the Creator of man, the creature would have had the sole and simple duty of a meek submission. But since that benign Being has vouchsafed clear and bright disclosures, and the obscurity, that has supervened and made those disclosures unintelligible, is the result of the creature's ignorance and presumption, it can be no excess of duty if human efforts be made to dissipate that darkness, which human frailty has created. The labour of dispersing these clouds, hanging over and obscuring Divine revelation, is not inconsiderable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.