This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ...Now is oral tradition capable of such a task?" "That question at least may he safely answered in the affirmative," said John. "IjOiig histories are still handed down with most marvellous accuracy among Eastern nations. To take a case strictly in point, in a quite recent lecture Mr. Max M tiller tells us, you know, how ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ...Now is oral tradition capable of such a task?" "That question at least may he safely answered in the affirmative," said John. "IjOiig histories are still handed down with most marvellous accuracy among Eastern nations. To take a case strictly in point, in a quite recent lecture Mr. Max M tiller tells us, you know, how the immense mass of Hindoo Vedic documents have thus been handed down by oral tradition for centuries-from 000-B. C, to the present day. As to the accuracy of this mode of transmission, it has been such, he says, that while there are acknowledged differences or 'various readings' in them, just as in our Greek Testament, yet these various readings are recognized as such, and actually differ little more than ours do. I must admit I cannot see that the narrative is any less worthy of belief if it thus came down from still earlier days: on the contrary, it might be argued that it was more so. I will go further, and admit that a belief in the inspiration, say of this first chapter, does not bind mo to believe that, supposing it were originally God's revelation to any one, it had been subsequently preserved from every minute possibility of error by miraculous interposition. Mr. Moreton might object to this, but I don't, for my part. I see that God has left it to human care and labor, to preserve the Greek text of the New Testament, and has not prevented various readings in that; and my difficulties would practically be removed if I could feel that the original Revelation, supposed to be divinely given, and however given, had been handed down with substantial accuracy by human means." "Perhaps I am more liberal than you think me," said Mr. Moreton. ' do not know that I should object to such a statement of the ...
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