tc in the are intimately connected with known genuine history or bear in and of probability that the while he tin form may retain the as the ia the moat to and i s only a negative when the ia l on the one as to the possibility of its being a detail of and when on the other it no attempt a particular thought it may im that the entire owes its birth to the imagination ot the poet remarks on the and spontaneous of in gi the which ia with the matters of fact in the is not he er es the product of design and invention it has on the contrary l in of itself as it were en the c of time and in the course of and speaking of philosophical ht says the of antiquity in an not only in o ideas to the ap jn hi of a � l who must w an by i i le but also on ou n ai m i in di ideas and ill ability to give � n to ir dim they t to wliat was obscure in n by means of w c i tliat the mode of the old iv could ho only so long a t the � were to be or so the it those and others who this who the view of the sacred histories c opinion that the h of in could bo rightly understood t it were they are not the of an eye witness bat are a of traditions their in being admitted we to surprised at the traces which they of a subsequent age at together with other and at tlie twilight hangs many of the an i at ii m that the of the u not old during their passage through the wilderness contend tliat wc a great of the marvellous contained in tlie to tradition we do violence to of the of der in g stock it� t m l die a m r im did � a s mo if explanation waa still more hy by al of a large ot la to lost the a � he says wc intention if the if tliat be not to satisfy the t tor by n of ii but la delight or the or to some al or truth then i narrative no lo ui of strictly hi t li t of view may not be lie historical be may be a poetical not indeed as a drawing from bat as by and depending on poetry to himself is evidently the case the details aa tide matter of things which are and which are contrary not only to experience bnt to the laws of nature of this description spring out of tradition tradition says is and partial its tendency is not but rather patriotic and and since the sentiment is gratified by hu that national pride the more tjie more honourable the more i n re e il it is and where tradition has i any nt steps in and them up and since he a gi eat part of the historical books of old bear this it been believed possible on the of the natural to separate the and from the substance and still to consider them as of this might indeed be done liad wc besides the ni some other purely historical account of events but tliis is not the case witli regard to old testament we arc solely dependent on those which wc cannot recognize as purely tliey con no by which to between the true und the false arc blended and set forth aa of j to ue the whole mode of explanation is set a by the only means ol with a history is the which we com it md beyond the cannot go in the case this reports to ns only a of events whidi wc must either receipt or reject if we it we determine to know nothing at all it aud arc not in allowing ourselves to invent a natural course of events which the i totally silent it is moreover and lo refer the dress in the of the old are clothed lo and to preserve the events i rather do the and the dress i� they i con a whole belonging to the pi of and l or � do u � � s it op tub point op if with be in the ot at im it ia that an � in to say no c il the hail a in mi ml in a or in ii waking vision in other that a ii iti he in the spirit of off to god � if the who thus k t knows such in s mind the them l if the w� know nothing � his of and know tliey id in him general t � re in this be of � land of not lit rally in mind it is i that tile i ii they had ih ome a in won of land i in order lo render ann t i i� by i a own er back to r who so employed the natural explanation in n to e ld tea lament perceived in to tlie in t i� sc a to the be we not to attempt to into a natural occurrence because ia violence if once an event acquired a miraculous owing to the of some notion tim occurrence the natural fact can be only we a second account not ne like a concerning tl e death of have not the narrative in the acts but also tliat of t � we have no account concerning the of critic to the natural course of from ri � lion of will only a of se � a which as en ea at once many of tho of tlie histories it ia difference the natural and mj of which to point out 