The eternity of the world / By G.H. Toulmin.

  • George Hoggart Toulmin
Date:
1785
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Credit: The eternity of the world / By G.H. Toulmin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * OF THE WORLD. 19 - ^ _ t nitely more remote than is authorifed by the belief of the reft of mankind. It is certain, however, that thefe two nations have been acquainted with letters from a very early period, and that their annals have never been difturbed nor deftroyed by any known revolu¬ tion. And though we may come to the pe- rufal of their records armed with every argu¬ ment, and fortified even to prejudice againft: the admifiion of their pretenfions, and at the fame time plage the mo ft implicit reliance ■ m upon the chronology generally received; yet their plaufible accounts of thofe remote ages, and their undeviating confidence in their own aftertions, never can fail to make fome im- preftion, and that in proportion as we gain a clearer infight. 1 , Like the reft of mankind, the Gentoos, too, have rude fketches of a firft formation of the world, and of the univerfe. Their fabulous and extravagant narrative obtains among them the moft implicit credit, notwithftand- ing it is evidently replete with glaring ab>- furdities. C 2 Though w 'v ■
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