THE +

SACRED HISTORY

OF

THE WORLD.

VOL. II.

THE

SACRED HISTORY

OF

THE WORLD,

ATTEMPTED TO BE

PHILOSOPHICALLY CONSIDERED,

IN A

SERIES OF LETTERS TO A SON.

VOL. II.

BY SHARON TURNER, F.S.A. & R.A.S.L.

LONDON:

LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, GREEN AND LONGMAN,
PATERNOSTER ROW.

PREFACE.

THIS Second Volume continues the attempt to trace the outlines of the Sacred History of the World, as the phenomena of nature, and the experience of life unfold it to us; with such illustrations, as the

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superior sources of our knowlege upon it, more certainly, supply. The former Letters were principally directed to consider it, in the formations and system of the material laws and structure of our globe, and in the various classes of organic and sentient life

which appear upon it. The present Correspondence

carries on the investigation; but is more particularly applied to observe and delineate the Divine economy in its more special reference to mankind; and to exhibit the plans and principles and purposes, which seem to have been pursued with respect to them, and to the progression of human nature in their successive generations, and therefore in the conduct and