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"Since this work was undertaken, with the view of presenting a purely scientific essay on the Pyramids, its plan has been materially changed. The range of study, necessary to develop the scientific features, has enwoven many religious coincidences, complicating the mystery of their origin, which it would be folly to cast aside. It is not a proposition to be sneered at by the most inveterate theomachist, that the design, origin, and destiny of the Great Pyramid are theistic, although reasonably subject to negative criticism. Nor, though fashionable with most modern writers of materialistic views, does it comport with good sense and justice to underrate coincidences, which, as evidences, are opposed to our own views. But they should rather be weighed, value for value, with physical testimony; for the day has not yet come when we can either dogmatically negate the direct government of a spiritual essence, or demolish with rare mepris the intellectual giants, whose minds, (as broad and untrammeled as our own), have found "reason" in a divinity, and "common sense" in a revelation." - Everett W. Fish.