Note 165 — Chapter II · SUPPOSED PRESUMPTION AGAINST A REVELATION CONSIDERED AS MIRACULOUS.
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[That man, at first, must have had supernatural instructions, or in other words some revelations, is shown by Archbishop Whately in his “Origin of Civilization.” Rev. Samuel Stanhope Smith expresses his conviction, both from reason and history, that man in his savage state could not even have preserved life without instruction from his Creator.]