Still another curious survival is seen in a work which
appeared as late as 1885, at Edinburgh, by William Galloway, M.
A., Ph. D., M. D. The author thinks that he has produced abundant
evidence to prove that "Jehovah, the Second Person of the
Godhead, wrote the first chapter of Genesis on a stone pillar,
and that this is the manner by which he first revealed it to
Adam; and thus Adam was taught not only to speak but to read and
write by Jehovah, the Divine Son; and that the first lesson he
got was from the first chapter of Genesis." He goes on to say:
"Jehovah wrote these first two documents; the first containing the
history of the Creation, and the second the revelation of man's
redemption,... for Adam's and Eve's instruction; it is evident
that he wrote them in the Hebrew tongue, because that was the
language of Adam and Eve." But this was only a flower out of season.
And, finally, in these latter days Mr. Gladstone has touched
the subject. With that well-known facility in believing anything
he wishes to believe, which he once showed in connecting
Neptune's trident with the doctrine of the Trinity, he floats
airily over all the impossibilities of the original Babel legend
and all the conquests of science, makes an assertion regarding
the results of philology which no philologist of any standing
would admit, and then escapes in a cloud of rhetoric after his
well-known fashion.
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