Request for Commentary on the Mosaic Account of Human Origins

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Letter from C. T. Quintard, M.D., to Isaac Leeser, requesting clarification on the views of Jewish commentators regarding the legality of marriage between siblings before the giving of the commandments. Quintard mentions that he is preparing a paper on "Original Units of the American Race" and has encountered an objection in a review of Dr. Pritchard's work on the natural history of man, which cites the Mosaic account. The letter is three pages long and written in English.

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