The philosophy of eating. By Albert J. Bellows, M.D.

THE REVELATION TO MOSES.

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and rivers, and the chemical character of the elements
that compose them.
This harmony is the more striking when we consider
that Moses knew nothing of astronomy, mineralogy,
geology, or chemistry, as is evident from his descriptions, in all of which he gives us not the actual condition of things, or the actual development of events, but
only a description of things and events as they appeared
to him, or as by a kind of panoramic vision they were
revealed, to be described in his own words.
Thus, in his description of the sun, moon, and stars,
as they appeared when the mists had cleared off so as
to reveal them, as if they were then created, he says,
"And God made two great lights, the greater to rule
the day, and the lesser to rule the night;" "and he
made the stars also." And God set them in the
firmament of the heavens to give light upon the earth."
This was on the fourth day, but on the second day, he
says, " God said, Let there be light;" and this was
when " God moved upon the face of the waters," and
the mists were so far condensed that light from the sun
began to shine through them. It is evident, therefore,
that Moses wrote in his own language a description of
appearances, as revealed by a kind of panorama, as
suggested by Hugh Miller in " The Testimony of the
Rocks."
First, he saw the earth, so enshrouded in mists that
not a ray of light could penetrate to its surface, and it
appeared "without form and void;" then, next, as it
appeared when the mists were partly condensed into