Excerpt from The Bible and Higher Criticism: Read at the Summer School of the American Institute of Christian Philosophy, July 6, 1893 Now it is just at this day when the Bible in certain learned cir cles is denied as a revelation, as the Word of the living God, that we are able to show this test in the clearest possible light. It is in this day when the inheritance of acquired traits is 'a doctrine used to account for the persistence of Christianity in the world and to deny the miraculous in that persistence that we turn to those peoples whose acquired traits through unknown ages have been filth of body, vileness of mind, cruelty in all its forms, until the last stage of human degradation and sin has been reached and men have made human flesh their greatest feast. We will go to the cannibal islands and coasts of the southern Pacific, some unvisited by foreigners till the man with the Bible came, others taught even hitherto unknown vilenesses by visit ing foreigners, but all distrustful of every other man and standing with the ever-ready hatchet to prepare another feast of human flesh. 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.