THE following pages are meant to supply what the writers believe to be a strongly felt want. While many useful manuals exist, fitted to convey to general readers an acquaintance with the outlines of such sciences as Astronomy, Geology, or Botany, scarcely anything of the kind has been attempted in connexion with the science of Biblical Criticism. Not a few valuable treatises have indeed been issued on the subject; but these are of by far too technical a character to meet the wants of the
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