the anti-geologists, from those which he makes use of in denouncing the
men honestly bent on reconciling the enunciations of revelation with the
findings of geologic science,--a class which included in the past,
divines such as Chalmers, Buckland, and Pye Smith, and comprises divines
such as Hitchcock and the Archbishop of Canterbury now,--is worthy of
being noted. In two sermons, "Christianity without Judaism," written by
this clergyman of the Church of England, to show that all days of the
week are alike, and the Christian Sabbath a mere blunder, I find the
following passage:--"Some divines have consistently rejected all geology
and all science as profane and carnal; and some even, when pretending to
call themselves men of science, have stooped to the miserable policy, of
tampering with the truth, investing the real facts in false disguises,
to cringe to the prejudices of the many, and to pervert science into a
seeming accordance with popular prepossessions." I cannot believe that
this will be regarded as justifiable language: it seems scarce worthy of
a man of science; and will, I fear, only be accepted as good in evidence
that the _odium theologicum_ is not restricted to what is termed the
orthodox side of the Church.
[36] The gentleman here referred to lectured no later than October,
1853, against the doctrines of the geologists; and modestly chose as the
scene of his labors the city of Hutton and Playfair. What he set himself
specially to "demonstrate" was, as he said, that the geologic "theories
as to antiquity of the earth, successive eras, &c., were not only
fallacious and unphilosophical, but rendered nugatory the authority of
the sacred Scriptures." Not only, however, did he exert himself in
demolishing the geologists as infidel, but he denounced also as unsound
the theology of good old Isaac Watts. The lines taught us in our
infancy,--
"Let dogs delight to bark and bite,
For God hath made them so,"
were, he remarked, decidedly heterodox. They ought to have run
instead,--
"Let dogs delight to bark and bite,
_Satan_ hath made them so"!!!
[37] "A Brief and Complete Refutation of the Anti-Scriptural Theory of
Geologists." By a Clergyman of the Church of England. London: Wertheim &
Macintosh. 1853.
[38] Newspaper Report of Meeting of the British Association held at York
in September, 1844.
[39] See "Primary and Present State of the Solar System, particularly of
our own Planet;" and "Exposure of the Principles of Modern Geology." By
P. M'Farlane, Author of the "Primary and Present State of the Solar
System." Edinburgh: Thomas Grant.
[40] One of the more brilliant writers of the present day,--a native of
the picturesque village in which this anti-geologist resides,--describes
in a recent work, with the enthusiasm of the poet, the noble mountains
which rise around it. I know not, however, whether my admiration of the
passage was not in some degree dashed by a few comic notions suggestive
of an "imaginary conversation," in the style of Landor, between this
popular author and his anti-geologic townsman, on the merits of hills in
general, and in especial on the claims of those which encircle Comrie
"as the mountains are round about Jerusalem." The two gentlemen would, I
suspect, experience considerable difficulty in laying down, in such a
discussion, their common principles.
[41] "Comparative Estimate of the Mineral and Mosaical Geologies." By
Granville Penn, Esq. London, 1825.
[42] "Statesman and Record," October 6th, 1846.
[43] Sir Charles Lyell's statement is by no means so express or definite
as it is represented to be in this passage, in which I have taken the
evidence of his opponents regarding it. What he really says (see his
"Principles," second edition, 1832) is what follows:--"_If_ the ratio of
recession had never exceeded fifty yards in forty years, it must have
required nearly ten thousand years for the excavation of the whole
ravine; but no probable conjecture can be offered as to the quantity of
time consumed in such an operation, because the retrograde movement may
have been much more rapid when the whole current was confined within a
space not exceeding a fourth or fifth of that which the Falls now
occupy." In the eighth edition of the same work, however, published in
1850, after he had examined the Falls, there occurs the following
re-statement of the case:--"After the most careful inquiries I was able
to make during my visit to the spot in 1841-42, I came to the conclusion
that the average [recession] of one foot a year would be a much more
probable conjecture than that of one and a quarter yards. In that case
it would have required _thirty-five thousand years_ for the retreat of
the Falls from the escarpment of Queenston to their present site. It
seems by no means improbable that such a result would be no exaggeration
of the truth, although we cannot assume that the retrograde movement has
been uniform. At some points it may have receded much faster than at
present; but in general its progress was probably slower, because the
cataract, when it began to recede, must have been nearly twice its
present height."
[44] "Scottish Christian Herald," 1838, vol. iii., p. 766.
[45] The substance of this and the following lecture was originally
given in a single paper, before the Geological Section of the British
Association, held at Glasgow in September 1855. So considerable have
been the additions, however, that the one paper has swelled into two
lectures. Most of the added matter was at first thrown into the form of
Notes; but it was found, that from their length and frequency, they
would have embarrassed the printer, mayhap the reader also; and so most
of the larger ones have been introduced into the text within brackets.
[46] A curious set of these, with specimens of the smooth-stemmed fucoid
collected by Mr. John Miller of Thurso,--a meritorious laborer in the
geologic field,--were exhibited at Glasgow to the Association. The
larger stems were thickly traversed in Mr. J. Miller's specimens by
diagonal lines, which seemed, however, to be merely lines of rhomboidal
fracture in the glassy coal into which the plants were converted, and
not one of their original characters.
[47] I must, however, add, that there was found in the neighborhood of
Stromness about fifteen years ago, by Dr. John Fleming, a curious
nondescript vegetable organism, which, though equivocal in character and
appearance, was in all probability a plant of the sea. It consisted of a
flattened cylinder, in some of the specimens exceeding a foot in length
by an inch in breadth, and traversed on both the upper and under sides
by a mesial groove extending to the extremities. It bore no external
markings, and the section exhibited but an indistinct fibrous structure,
sufficient, however, to indicate its vegetable origin. I have not
hitherto succeeded in finding for myself specimens of this organism,
which has been named provisionally, by Dr. Fleming, _Stroma obscura_;
but it seems not improbable that certain supposed fragments of wood,
detected by Mr. Charles Peach in the Caithness Flagstones, but which do
not exhibit the woody structure, may have belonged to it.
[48] I figured this species from an imperfect Cromarty specimen fifteen
years ago. (See "Old Red Sandstone," first edition, 1841, Plate VII.
Fig. 4). Of the greatly better specimens now figured I owe the larger
one (Fig. 120) to Mrs. Mill, Thurso, who detected it in the richly
fossiliferous flagstones of the locality in which she resides, and
kindly made it over to me; and the specimen of which I have given a
magnificent representation (Fig. 12, p. 55) to my friend Mr. Robert
Dick. I have, besides, seen several specimens of the same organism, in a
better or worse state of keeping, in the interesting collection of the
Rev. Charles Clouston, Sandwick, near Stromness.
[49] "Frogspawn is full of eyes [that is, black eye-like points], and
every eye is a tadpole."
[50] Mr. Page figures, in his "Advanced Text Book of Geology" (p. 127),
a few circular markings from the Forfarshire beds, which he still
regards as spawn, probably that of a Crustacean, and which certainly
differ greatly in appearance from the markings found enclosed in the
apparent spathes.
[51] Since these sentences were written I have seen a description of
both the plants of the Upper Old Red to which they refer, in an
interesting sketch of the geology of Roxburgshire by the Rev. James
Duncan, which forms part of a recent publication devoted to the history
and antiquities of the shire. "In the red quarry of Denholm Hill there
occurs," says Mr. Duncan, "a stratum of soft yellowish sandstone, which
contains impressions of an apparent fucoid in considerable quantity. One
or several linear stems diverge from a point, and throw off at acute
angles, as they grow upwards, branches or leaves very similar to the
stem, which are in turn subdivided into others. The width of the stalks
is generally about a quarter of an inch, the length often a foot. The
color is brown, blackish-brown, or grayish. The same plant also occurs
in the whitestone quarry [an overlying bed] in the form of Carbonaceous
impressions. There can be little doubt that it is a fucoid. The general
mode of growth greatly resembles that of certain seaweeds; and in some
specimens we have seen the branches dilated a little at the extremities,
like those of such of the living fuci as expand in order to afford space
for the fructification. It is deserving of remark, that the plant is
seldom observed lying horizontally on the rock in a direction parallel
to its stratification, but rising up through the layers, so as only to
be seen when the stone is broken across; as if it had been standing
erect, or kept buoyant in water, while the stony matter to which it owes
its preservation was deposited around it." Mr. Duncan, after next
referring to the remains of what he deems a land plant, derived from the
same deposit, and which, though sadly mutilated, presents not a little
of the appearance of the naked framework of a frond of Cyclopterus
Hibernicus divested of the leaflets, goes on to describe the apparent
calamite of the formation. "The best preserved vegetable remain yet
found in Denholm Hill quarry," he says, "is the radical portion of what
we cannot hesitate to call a species of calamite. The lower part is
regularly and beautifully rounded, bulging and prominent, nearly four
inches in diameter. About an inch from the bottom it contracts somewhat
suddenly in two separate stages, and, from the uppermost sends up a stem
about an inch in diameter, and nearly of the same length, where it is
broken across. At the origin of this stem the small longitudinal ridges
are distinctly marked; and the whole outline of the figure, though
converted into stone, is as well defined as it could have been in the
living plant." Mr. Duncan accompanies his description with a figure of
the organism described, which, however, rather resembles the bulb of a
liliaceous plant than the root of a calamite, which in all the better
preserved, specimens contracts, instead of expanding, as it descends.
The apparent expansion, however, in the Old Red specimen may be simply a
result of compression in its upper part: the under part certainly much
resembles, in the dome-like symmetry of its outline, the radical
termination of a solitary calamite.
[52] "Though the coal of Sabero is apparently included in Devonian
rocks," says Sir Roderick Murchison, "M. Casiano de Prado thinks that
this appearance may be do to inverted folds of the strata." On the other
hand, M. Alcide D'Orbigny regards it us decidedly Old Red; and certainly
its Sphenopteris and Lepidodendron bent much more the aspect of Devonian
than of Carboniferous plants.
[53] Now, alas! no more. In Mr. Gourlay the energy and shrewd business
habits of the accomplished merchant were added to an enlightened zeal
for general science, and no inconsiderable knowledge in both the
geologic and botanic provinces. The marked success, in several respects,
of the brilliant meeting of the British Association which held in
Glasgow in September 1855, was owing in no small measure to the
indefatigable exertions and well calculated arrangements of Mr. Gourlay.
[54] Trees must have been very abundant in what is now Scotland in these
Secondary ages. Trunks of the common Scotch fir are of scarce more
frequent occurrence in our mosses than the trunks of somewhat resembling
trees among the shales of the Lower Oolite of Helmsdale. On examining in
that neighborhood, about ten years since, a huge heap of materials which
had been collected along the sea shore for burning into lime in a
temporary kiln, I found that more than three fourths of the whole
consisted of fragments of coniferous wood washed out of the shale beds
by the surf, and the remainder of a massive Isastrea. And only two years
ago, after many kilnfuls had been gathered and burnt, his grace the Duke
of Argyll found that fossil wood could still he collected by cartloads
along the shore of Helmsdale. The same woods also occur at Port Gower,
Kintradwell, Shandwick, and Eathie. In the Island of Eigg, too, in an
Oolite deposit, locked up in trap, and whose stratigraphical relations
cannot in consequence be exactly traced, great fragments of _Pinites
Eiggensis_ are so abundant, that, armed with a mattock, I have dug out
of the rock, in a few minutes, specimens enough to supply a dozen of
museums. In short, judging from its fossiliferous remains, it seems not
improbable that old Oolitic Scotland was as densely covered with
coniferous trees as the Scotland of Roman times, when the great
Caledonian forest stretched northwards from the wall of Antoninus to the
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ANALYTICAL CONCORDANCE OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES; or, The Bible presented
under Distinct and Classified Heads or Topics. By JOHN EADIE, D.D., LL.
D., Author of "Biblical Cyclopædia," "Dictionary of the Bible," &c., &c.
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supersede. Both are necessary to the Biblical student.
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which are confined to religious or doctrinal topics.
3. It contains _the whole of the Bible without abridgment_,
differing in no respect from the Bible in common use, except in the
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4. It contains a synopsis, separate from the concordance,
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5. It contains a table of contents, embracing nearly two thousand
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6. It is much superior to the only other work in the language
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The purchaser gets not only a _Concordance_, but also a _Bible_, in
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hand and of making two references, instead of one,--will be readily
apparent.
The general subjects (under each of which there are a vast number
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Agriculture,
Animals,
Architecture,
Army, Arms,
Body,
Canaan,
Covenant,
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Earth,
Family,
Genealogy,
God,
Heaven,
Idolatry, Idols,
Jesus Christ,
Jews,
Laws,
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Man,
Marriage,
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Ministers of Religion,
Miracles,
Occupations,
Ordinances,
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Persecution,
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Prophecy,
Providence,
Redemption,
Sabbaths and Holy Days,
Sacrifice,
Scriptures,
Speech,
Spirits,
Tabernacle and Temple,
Vineyard and Orchard,
Visions and Dreams,
War,
Water.
That such a work as this is of exceeding great convenience is
matter of obvious remark. But it is much more than that; it is also
an instructive work. It is adapted not only to assist the student
in prosecuting the investigation of preconceived ideas, but also to
impart ideas which the most careful reading of the Bible in its
ordinary arrangement might not suggest. Let him take up any one of
the subjects--"Agriculture," for example--and see if such be not
the case. This feature places the work in a higher grade than that
of the common Concordance. It shows it to be, so to speak, a work
of more mind.
No Biblical student would willingly dispense with this Concordance
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classes,--clergymen and theological students; Sabbath-school
superintendents and teachers; authors engaged in the composition of
religious and even secular works; and, in fine, common readers of
the Bible, intent only on their own improvement.
A COMMENTARY ON THE ORIGINAL TEXT OF THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES. By
HORATIO B. HACKETT, D.D., Professor of Biblical Literature and
Interpretation, in the Newton Theological Institution. --> A new,
revised, and enlarged edition. _In Press._
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Scholars, in this country and in Europe.
AMOS LAWRENCE.
DIARY AND CORRESPONDENCE OF THE LATE AMOS LAWRENCE; with a brief account
of some Incidents in his Life. Edited by his son, WILLIAM R. LAWRENCE,
M.D. With fine steel Portraits of AMOS and ABBOTT LAWRENCE, an Engraving
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and a copious Index. Octavo edition, cloth, $1.50. Royal duodecimo
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and of giving those of moderate means, of every class, an opportunity of
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varying from the other edition, only in a reduction in the size
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Within six months after the first publication of this work, _twenty-two
thousand_ copies had been sold. This extraordinary sale is to be
accounted for by the character of the man and the merits of the book. It
is the memoir of a Boston merchant, who became distinguished for his
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fruit of our soil, but Amos Lawrence is another. Let our country
have credit for him also. THE GOOD EFFECT WHICH THIS LIFE MAY HAVE
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INCALCULABLE."--MRS. STOWE, IN N.Y. INDEPENDENT.
"We are glad to know that our large business houses are purchasing
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integrity which never knew the shadow of suspicion, candor in the
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"We are glad that American Biography has been enriched by such a
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'the good man,' and the practical Christian, we have read few
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"This book, besides being of a different class from most
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appeared on change, as he received his friends, as he poured out,
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children, and as he appeared in the bosom of his family at his own
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"It is printed on new type, the best paper, and is illustrated by
four beautiful plates. How it can be sold for the price named is a
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"It was first privately printed, and a limited number of copies
were distributed among the relatives and near friends of the
deceased. This volume was read with the deepest interest by those
who were so favored as to obtain a copy, and it passed from friend
to friend as rapidly as it could be read. Dr. Lawrence has yielded
to the general wish, and made public the volume. It will now be
widely circulated, will certainly prove a standard work, and be
read over and over again."--BOSTON DAILY ADVERTISER.
MODERN ATHEISM.
MODERN ATHEISM, under its Forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism,
Development, and Natural Laws. By JAMES BUCHANAN, D.D., LL. D. 12mo,
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The Author of this work is the successor of Dr. Chalmers in the
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leading classic in the Christian literature of Britain.
FROM HOWARD MALCOM, D.D., PRESIDENT OF LEWISBURG UNIVERSITY.--No
work has come into my hands, for a long time, so helpful to me as a
teacher of metaphysics and morals. I know of nothing which will
answer for a substitute. The public specially needs such a book at
this time, when the covert atheism of Fichte, Wolfe, Hegel, Kant,
Schelling, D'Holbach, Comte, Crousse, Atkinson, Martineau, Leroux,
Mackay, Holyoake, and others, is being spread abroad with all
earnestness, supported, at least in some places, both by church
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timely, scholarly, and complete, will do much good.
It is one of the most solid and remarkable books in its department
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modern Christian literature.--WORCESTER TRANSCRIPT.
Dr. Buchanan has earned a high and well-deserved reputation as a
classical writer and close logical reasoner. He deals heavy, deadly
blows on atheism in all its various forms; and wherever the work is
read it cannot fail to do good.--CHRISTIAN SECRETARY.
It is a work which places its author at once in the highest rank of
modern religious authors. His analyses of the doctrines held by the
various schools of modern atheism are admirable, and his criticism
original and profound; while his arguments in defence of the
Christian Faith are powerful and convincing. It is an attractive as
well as a solid book; and he who peruses a few of its pages is, as
it were, irresistibly drawn on to a thorough reading of the
book.--BOSTON PORTFOLIO.
The style is very felicitous, and the reasoning clear and cogent.
The opposing theories are fairly stated and combated with
remarkable case and skill. Even when the argument falls within the
range of science, it is so happily stated that no intelligent
reader can fail to understand it. Such a profound, dispassionate
work is particularly called for at the present time.--BOSTON
JOURNAL.
It is justly described as "a great argument," "magnificent in its
strength, order, and beauty," in defence of truth, and against the
variant theories of atheism. It reviews the doctrines of the
different schools of modern Atheism, gives a fair statement of
their theories, answers and refutes them, never evading, but
meeting and crushing their arguments.--PHILA. CHRISTIAN OBSERVER.
Dr. Buchanan is candid and impartial, too, as a strong a man can
afford to be, evades no argument, undertakes no opposing view, but
meets his antagonists with the quiet and unswerving confidence of a
locomotive on iron tracks, pretty sure to crush them.--CHRISTIAN
REGISTER.
We hail this production of a master mind as a lucid, vigorous,
discriminating, and satisfactory refutation of the various false
philosophies which have appeared in modern times to allure
ingenuous youth to their destruction. Dr. Buchanan has studied them
thoroughly, weighed them dispassionately, and exposed their falsity
and emptiness. His refutation is a clear stream of light from
beginning to end.--PHILA. PRESBYTERIAN.
We recommend "Modern Atheism" as a book for the times, and as
having special claims on theological students.--UNIVERSALIST
QUARTERLY.
It is remarkable for the clearness with which it apprehends and the
fairness with which it states, not less than for the ability with
which it replies to, the schemes of unbelief in its various modern
forms. It will be found easy to read--though not light reading--and
very quickening to thought, while it clears away, one by one, the
mists which the Devil has conjured around the great doctrines of
our Faith, by the help of some of his ingenious modern coadjutors,
and leaves the truth of God standing in its serene and pristine
majesty, as if the breath of hatred never had been breathed forth
against it.--CONGREGATIONALIST.
Dr. Buchanan has here gone into the enemy's camp, and defeated him
on his own ground. The work is a masterly defence of faith against
dogmatic unbelief on the one hand, and that universal skepticism on
the other, which neither affirms nor denies, on the ground of an
assumed deficiency of evidence as to the reality of God and
religion.--N.Y. CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE.
It is a clearly and vigorously written book. It is particularly
valuable for its clear statement and masterly refutation of the
Pantheism of Spinoza and his School.--CHRISTIAN HERALD.