This is wise--it is benevolent.' 'Proceed.' 'This being settled,' resumed the Egyptian, 'the old landmarks being left uninjured for those whom we are about to desert, we gird up our loins and depart to new climes of faith.

Dismiss at once from your recollection, from your thought, all that you have believed before.
Suppose the mind a blank, an unwritten scroll, fit to receive impressions for the first time.

Look round the world--observe its order--its regularity--its design.

Something must have created it--the design speaks a designer: in that certainty we first touch land.

But what is that something ?--A god, you cry.