of this school, whose philosophical and exegetical views exerted considerable influence for a time, was John Hutchinson, who, in 1724, published the first part of a work, entitled Moses’ Principia, in which he held that the writings of Moses contain the principles of all science. Hutchinson accordingly extracted from the first chapters of Genesis a system of philosophy which he flattered himself would entirely refute and supersede the Newtonian system of the world. Much about the same time the allegorical