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THE

SACRED HISTORY

OF

THE WORLD.

PART II.

LETTER I.

THE STUDY OF DIVINE PHILOSOPHY RECOMMENDED, IN AD-
DITION TO OUR CULTIVATION OF THE NATURAL SCIENCES
-AND UPON THE SAME PLAN ON WHICH THEY ARE PURSUED
-REASONS FOR THINKING THAT THE DIFFICULTIES AT-
TENDING IT MAY BE GRADUALLY SURMOUNTED.

MY DEAR SON,

I.

I RESUME my correspondence with you on the LETTER SACRED HISTORY of the WORLD with more pleasure, from perceiving that there is so much right feeling about it among my countrymen, that the subject has interested many, and that a further continuation of it has been desired. In a period when the human mind has been deviating into so many divergences of thought and action, that it is difficult to foresee into what state it will ultimately subside, it is gratifying to know that there are some, who will not desert the true standards of right judgment and

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