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Palimpsests—Asses, etc., with Four Hides—Specimen of a Palimpsest—Christianity Charged with the Loss of Certain Greek and Roman Classics—Diodorus Siculus Lost that we might have an Account of the Virgin Mary's Milk—Divine Fiddle-faddling.

Our Earliest Hebrew Text more than 1,000 Years more Recent than the Time of Moses—800 Years to Decipher God's Book—"In Toby" or "On Tabby"—"Bet, Cheat"—In what Language did Moses Write?

The "Search" for "Eternal Life"—The "Search" Easier now than it Once was—The Parts of Scripture Most Intensely Inspired—A Short Cut to "Eternal Life"—The Lant Street Mechanic's Speech to Jehovah.

A Hiatus of over 2,000 Years—No Allowance Made for Change in the Language from the Date of Genesis to that of Malachi—The Septuagint and its Witnesses—Prodigies which would be Incredible but for the Evidence of such Witnesses.

The Kind of God Rejected and the Kind of God Wanted—Reasons why God did not Produce a Better Book—Domestic Complications and Infelicities in the Divine Family Circle—God's Grandmother, St. Ann—The Virgin Mary.

The Scriptures Modern—Father Hardouin's Contention—Alleged Forgery of the Greek and Roman Classics—Fallibility of Scholars and Experts—Instances of the Spurious Antique in Literature—150,000 Different Readings of Holy Writ—Christ Quoted from a Spurious Version, the Septuagint.

Is God Magnanimous?—Scriptural Obscurity—All Hagiography Obscure—Genesis iv. 23-24—Sacred Languages—The Name of God—Reputable and Disreputable Necromancy.

The Eve and Apple Story—If this Story of the "Fall" be not Literally True, "Redemption" would be Unnecessary—The Adam and Eve Story a Plagiarism—The "Fall" and Death Absolutely Indispensable—Mathematical Calculation Showing what would Now be the Population of the Globe if there had been no Death—Damnation Consequently a Blessing.