Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE IMPARTIALITY OF SCIENTIFIC DENIALS 325 ative repose ? a time of Tubal-Cains and Jubals, when both Sciences and arts attempted to strike their roots into the accursed ground. . . . What a subject for an epic . . . when] there are inevitable incidents which must have occurred. We see before us ... the gay primeval lover wooing his blushing bride at dewy eve under the Danish oaks, that then grew where now no oaks will grow . . . the grey primeval patriarch . . . the primeval offspring innocently gamboling by his side. ... A thousand such pictures rise before us ... (pp. 206-207). The retrospective glance at this Satanic blushing bride in the days of Satan's innocence does not lose in poetry as it gains in originality. Quite the reverse. The modern Christian bride ? who does not often blush nowadays before her gay modern lovers ? might even derive a moral lesson from this daughter of Satan, in the exuberant fancy of her first human biographer. These pictures ? and to appreciate them at their true value they must be examined in the volume that describes them ? are all suggested with a view to reconcile the infallibility of revealed Scripture with Sir C. Lyell's Antiquity of Man and other damaging scientific works. But this does not prevent truth and fact appearing at the foundation of these vagaries, which the author has never dared to sign with his own, or even a borrowed name. For, his pre-Adamic races ? not Satanic but simply Atlantic, and the Hermaphrodites before the latter ? are mentioned in the Bible when read esoterically, as they are in the Secret Doctrine. The Seven Keys open the mysteries, past and future, of the seven great Root Races, as of the seven Kalpas. Though the genesis of man, and even the esoteric geology, will surely be rejected by Science just as...