Moriah, or, sketches of the sacred rites of Ancient Israel

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IT has pleased the Author of our being, that a large portion of that knowledge of himself which is derived from the material world, should be obtained by the instrumentality, not of the direct rays of the sun, to which our eyes are ill-adapted, and which dazzle and blind us, but by means of indirect rays reflected from terrestrial objects, and so modified and subdued as to be perfectly suited to the delicate mechanism of our organs of vision.