Excerpt from Joseph the Seer: His Prophetic Mission Vindicated, and the Divine Origin of the Book of Mormon Defended and Maintained To make a translator responsible for the truth or falsity of the facts he translates is probably an original idea with Mr. Sheldon, and one that he feels is quite indispensable to his success. Sensi ble, fair dealing people hardly think of holding Pope responsible for the truth or falsity of Homer's Illiad or Odyssey because he translated them; nor would they hold the translators of the Bible responsible for the character of its contents, but only for the faith fulness with which they performed their work of translation. Now, the Book of Mormon in more places than one admits that there may be errors and imperfections in it. It does not claim absolute perfection as to its contents in all, and in every respect. Its historical parts do not claim to be written by revelation, or by such measure of inspiration as to exclude errors and defects in language, and style; nor does it claim to be absolutely correct in all its historical dates. Nephi, the very first writer in the book, is conscious that through his inherent weakness his record might be, possibly, faulty. He says. 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.