ABSTRACT
All The ideas that these people had formed upon the creation of the world & upon all natural phenonoma ˆformed by sob illiterate a peopleˆ were of course ˆfalseˆ grose [ ] grose & ˆ theyˆ betrayed at At a time when ˆevenˆ The civilized G conceptions of the enlightened Greeks were rude & unformed no great proficiency in phisical knowledge could be expected from a herd of Arabian robbersc – yet ˆasˆ Moses had formed ˆreceivedˆ most of his opinions in Egypt then the most civilized country in the world – it appears wonderful ˆextraordinaryˆ that his tenets should be in every respect those of the most unenlightened savage.
