but surely yielding and falling before its tremendous sweep.
The first chapter of Genesis has been smashed by the figures of geology. The story of Joshua and the Sun, has been knocked to atoms by the figures of astronomy.
The man-made Jehovah of the Bible has been driven out of his place in the heavens, by the wondrous figures of Siderial investigation. The ridiculous idea of ascending into heaven bodily, being resurrected in the flesh and going to heaven in that form, together with hundreds of other childish conceptions of the past, are gradually being wiped out by the figures belonging to philosophy, chemistry and other scientific branches.
Last, but not least, the old conception of the human soul and body existing by some act of special creation; or the grandest product of the earth, the human mind, the entity, being the growth of a few weeks; or a few months, together with the erroneous belief that "man controls his own destiny," or, in fact, is anything else but a creature of the Law, all must in turn fall, before the sublime demonstrations furnished by the FIGURES OF MYSTICISM.
