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Do Not Consider It Proof Just Because It Is Written In Books, For A Liar Who Will Deceive With His Tongue Will Not Hesitate To Do The Same With His Pen.

Galen , In The Third Section Of His Book, "the Use Of The Limbs," Says Correctly That It Would Be In Vain To Expect To See Living Beings Formed Of The Blood Of Menstruous Women And The Semen Virile, Who Will Not Die, Will Never Feel Pain, Or Will Move Perpetually, Or Shine Like The Sun. This Dictum Of Galen Is Part Of The Following More General Proposition: Whatever Is Formed Of Matter Receives The Most Perfect Form Possible In That Species Of Matter; In Each Individual Case The Defects Are In Accordance With That Individual Matter.

The Same Is The Case With Those Opinions Of Man To Which He Has Been Accustomed From His Youth; He Likes Them, Defends Them, And Shuns The Opposite Views.

It Is Not Unreasonable To Assume That The Works Of God, Their Existence And Preceding Non-existence, Are The Result Of His Wisdom, But We Are Unable To Understand Many Of The Ways Of His Wisdom In His Works. On This Principle The Whole Law Of Moses Is Based; It Begins With This Principle: "and God Saw All That He Had Made, And Behold, It Was Very Good" (gen. I. 31); And It Ends With This Principle: "the Rock, Perfect Is His Work" (deut. Xxxii. 4). Note It.

The Key To The Understanding And To The Full Comprehension Of All That The Prophets Have Said Is Found In The Knowledge Of The Figures, Their General Ideas, And The Meaning Of Each Word They Contain.