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Excerpt from The First Man and His Place in Creation: Considered on the Principles of Science and Common Sense From a Christian Point of View; With an Appendix on the Negro
The first man and his place in creation! Poh l' says our positive friend. Why look back to the beginning and not be content to see what we own see - man as he is just before us If you desire a poetical subject, do not choose the first man, nor the last - they are already disposed of; but propound to us your philosophy of man as a commercial animal, or how any of us can improve our capital with the least loss of credit, and time; then we will learn at your feet till we get the whole lesson by heart. But as to the first man, what need we know about him We have had enough of him and more had better not be written; it must be either the old story over again, or else the invention of a new and therefore a false one, - in either case, as Mahomet said of the old world library, useless. If you mean Adam, we are told in plain terms who he was, Why he was, where he was, and what came of him. For my part I have done with him, and now only wish to find the best place for myself.'
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