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controlled the minds of men to a great extent, and has hurried men to
new inventions which has led them to forget God.
In strength of intellect, men who now live can bear no comparison
to the ancients. There has been more ancient arts lost that the present
generation now possess. For skill and art those living in this degenerate
age will not compare with the knowledge possessed by strong men
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who lived near one thousand years.
Men before the flood lived many hundred of years, and when one
hundred years old were considered but youths. Those long-lived men
had sound minds in sound bodies. Their mental and physical strength
was so great that the present feeble generation can bear no comparison
to them. Those ancients had nearly one thousand years in which to
acquire knowledge. They came upon the stage of action from the ages
of sixty to one hundred years, about the time those who now live the
longest have acted their part in their little short life time, and have
passed off the stage. Those who are deceived, and flattered on in the
delusion that the present is an age of real progress, and that the human
race has been in ages past progressing in true knowledge, are under
the influence of the father of lies, whose work has ever been to turn
the truth of God into a lie.