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'statements' in Exodus which are 'incorrect.'1 Still I do not see that he ever withdraws what he had written previously on the Book of EXODUS. Our book,' he states (referring thereto) 'contains a full outline of the moral laws which man owes to God and to his fellow-creatures; and so admirable is their purpose, and so systematic their arrangement, that they form the eternal and infallible standard of human conduct. The Decalogue and the "Book of the Covenant" embodied in Exodus render it, with respect to Divine revelation, the most important volume which the human race ever possessed.' He adds, Even the most radical sceptics have admitted that a historical kernel lies at the bottom of the account concerning the Exode, and that Moses is the author at least of the Decalogue.' And after stating that the unity of the book had been questioned by a certain school, and that even more moderate interpreters believed that it was disfigured by spurious interpolations, he writes: "We have, in all such passages, tried to refute this very questionable opinion. We see the completest harmony in all parts of Exodus; we consider it as a perfect whole, pervaded throughout by one spirit and the same leading ideas.' 5

When I take into consideration this most important avowal, and the fact that there are men as learned, I suppose, as Dr. Kalisch, who maintain the Mosaic authorship of the whole of the Pentateuch, I think my undertaking, though not the inefficiency with which it has been carried out, may be justified.

I will not dismiss this Note without confessing the great diffidence with which in the preceding Essay I have made some observations of my own on certain words employed by an eminent philosopher whose long services to natural science, and present devotion to the cause of national education, I cannot sufficienly admire. I believe, however, that he would be about the last man in the world to arrest discussion on a subject merely because he had thought fit to declare his own opinions thereupon. July, 1871.

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