In the discussion of these charges, the traits of exaggeration and inconsistency which have been imputed to them will be abundantly evinced. As disconnected specimens, the reader may, by anticipation, take the following: Notes on Genesis, page 39, pervert the words that Adam and Eve knew good and evil after they transgressed, as teaching that then only they acquired a conscience! The argument is, that they could not have had a judgment of the moral distinction until they had experience of both kinds
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