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add, that is disputable in Mr. Witt's lectures, or shall

we call

them sermons ? (They have a text prefixed to them in sermon fashion.) He conjectures, for instance, that the first eleven chap-

ters of Genesis were originally contained in pictures, which were translated, so to speak, into writing when written characters came to be used. The spoiling of the Egyptians he considers to be the carrying off of unredeemed pledges by the Hebrews, "who lent money just as they always have, and as they do now." This gives a new view of the social condition of the Hebrews in Egypt, but it may be true. But we must protest when we are told that Joshua worshipped and offered sacrifice to the twelve stones which he set up in the midst of Jordan, and that these stones were the earliest Druidic circle on record.