Patriarchy Author:John Harris Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. The New Aspect Of The Divme Character, And Thb Means Of Its Manifestation; A Remedial Economy Through The Family. A Third Law of the Divine ma... more »nifestation leads us to expect that the present stage will be found in advance of the preliminary or Paradisiacal constitution, and " will exhibit the evolution of new laws, facts, or means of manifestation." -T , External nature would for ages continue to Nature an ever- nnfoiding reveia- present to antediluvian man a preternatural aspect. In emerging from the garden into the great Edenic region—comprehending probably large portions of Asia and Africa—he took possession, in effect, of a " new world;" and, for him, it was boundless. Experience was then taking its first lessons. Every step into the wilderness brought to light a new creation. Every discovery was virtually the imposition of a new law. Even the succession of day and night, the vicissitudes of the seasons, and the annual renewal of the 'face of the earth, had yet to be classed among the uniformities of nature. The . phenomena of nature, regular and familiar as they at length became, would all appear, as they arose first into the hori- Man Primeval, p. 18. zon of human observation, to be so many wonders. The progress of civilization would be constantly multiplying and magnifying wonders. And even to the last, probably, the phenomena of the heavens would continue to possess, for antediluvian man, the exciting and alarming interest of pro- ternatural interpositions of the Deity. . . . Had man's career been unimpeded by sin. Direct Divine ' ' manifestation the original order of the Divine procedure must now precede the unfolding of would have led us to look, secondly, for an man's cogitation. advance ;n the means of manifestation afforded by...« less