Excerpt from Genesis and Its Authorship: Two Dissertations

If the result of the whole investigation may be thought rather negative in its character, the Author begs it may be remembered, that this is in a manner the necessary consequence of the nature of the inquiry itself. He trusts, however, that he has been able to arrive at not a few positive proofs of the integrity of the book. And if he has in any measure con tributed towards preserving to our Bibles this book of Genesis, in its wonted place and old esteem, with its hallowed associa tions and its striking and beautiful significance to the pious and re¿ecting, and intact for all its religious uses, his labour has not been in vain. If he has not pointed out that significance, or dwelt upon those religious uses, it was not because he was insensible of their value, but. Because they lay beyond his im mediate scope, and to have adverted to them would have too much swelled a work already larger than he desired.

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