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Excerpt from A New System, or an Analysis of Antient Mythology, Vol. 3 of 6: Wherein an Attempt Is Made to Divest Tradition of Fable; And to Reduce the Truth to Its Original Purity Ptessions must have been left upon their minds, after they had survived the fearful event. The sacred writer hale meteover given its the reasons, why it pleased God to bring this ood upon the' World, to the destruction of the work of his hands. The earth was corrupt before God; and the earth wasfilled with violence. And Ged looked upon 16. Earth, and behold, it wasmcprrupt for all'esh had corrupted his way upon the earth. And God said unto $0t qw y? Ttttj'ieshit is 807723 'hefiw me for the em th zsfilled with violence through them and behold, I will destroy them with the earth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.