Excerpt from The Parable of Creation: Being a Presentation of the Spiritual Sense of the Mosaic Narrative as Contained in the First Chapter of Genesis There can be no doubt that a large portion of the prejudice against the Bible which is held by shepti cal minds comes, not so much from wilful infidelity as from misunderstanding. The same may be said of the present tendency among all Christian sects to deny the plenary or verbal inspiration of that book which claims, in itself, to be the W'ord of God. It is not because people want to reject it so much as because they cannot discern wherein its inspiration, in many parts, consists. 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.