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Title: The waters above the firmament, or The earth's annular system
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Vail, Isaac Newton, 1840-1912
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Publisher: Philadelphia, Ferris and Leach

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Demonstrated by Historic Testimony. 83 in order that a man in this twentieth century shouldprove the truth of a theory; and yet they point withsuch unerring certainty to this grand and fascinatingfield of thought that it seems as though the penman hadhimself reveled therein. But let us see further. Ifit be true that man thus recognized the upper waters,then he lived in an environment consequent upon thatcondition, and all the natural phenomena of the inter-diluvian world must have had some relation to thesame. If there was a fund of water or vapors above, itmust have affected all conditions of life until it fell tothe earth. The sun could not be seen as it now appears,until the heavens were cleared of vapors. In a subsequent part of this volume I will prove thatthe heavens became cleared at the time of the deluge,and therefore the sun did not and could not have beenseen clearly until after that event. Now let us examine a few more links of evidencegleaned from this fruitful record. Ge

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