I did at length set it aside as incredible; not however from moral repugnance to it, (for I feared to trust the soundness of my instinct,) but because I had slid into a new rule of interpretation,--that _I must not obtrude miracles on the Scripture narrative_.

The writers tell their story without showing any consciousness that it involves physiological difficulties.

To invent a miracle in order to defend this, began to seem to me unwarrantable.
It had become notorious to the public, that Geologists rejected the idea of a universal deluge as physically impossible.

Whence could the water come, to cover the highest mountains?
Two replies were attempted: 1.

The flood of Noah is not described as universal: 2.