CINCINNATI:

WESTERN TRACT SOCIETY.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1875, by
WESTERN TRACT SOCIETY,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C.

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CONTENTS.

[CHAPTER I.]
PAGE.
Did the World Make Itself?[7]
Eternity of Matter.
Disproved by its Composite Nature.
Disproved by its Motion.
Evolution only a big Perpetual Motion Humbug.
Work of a Designer in the structure of the Eye.
The Eye-Maker sees over a wide Field and far.
The Eye-Maker sees Perfectly.

[CHAPTER II.]
Was Your Mother a Monkey?[34]
The Divine Fact of Evolution Quite Different from the Atheistic Theory.
State the Question Sharply—Why?
Darwin's Answer.
The Ancestral Monkey, Fish, Squirt.
Natural Selection.
Intended to Exclude God.
1. The History of the Theory.
Indian; Phœnician; Greek; Popish; La Place's Theory; The Vestiges of Creation.
Herbert Spencer's Contradictory Theory.
The Evolutionists' Hell.

Spontaneous Generation—two Theories; the ConflictingTheories of Progress; Tremaux; Lamarck; the Climatal;Darwin's; Huxley's; Parson's; Mivart's; Hyatt's;Cope's; Wallace's; the Gods; Denounced by the Princesof Science.

Agassiz's Deliverance Against it.
Imperfection of the Theory Eked out.
Huxley's Protoplasm.
Tyndall's Potency of Life in Matter.
Buchner's Matter and Force.
Lubbock's Origin of Civilization.
Consequences of the Brutal Origin of Man.
Propagandism of Atheism.
2. The Theory Illogical and Incoherent.
Darwin Admits Insufficiency of Proof.
Useless as an Explanation of Nature.
Self-Contradictory; e. g., Protoplasm.
Wallace's Self-Contradictions.
Incoherency of the Denial of Design with the Assertion of Progress.
Failure of Alleged Facts to Sustain the Theory.
Does not Account for the Origin of Anything.
Wild Assumptions Made by Darwin.
Erroneous Assumption of the Tendency of Natural Selection to Improve Breeds.
Assumption of Infinite Possibility of Progress in Finite Creatures.
3. An Unfounded Theory.
No Evidence of the Facts Possible.
None Ever Alleged, save Gulliver's.
Domestication Disproves Transmutation—Horses; Pigeons; Dogs.
The Egyptian Monuments.
The Mummied Animals.
The Geological Record.
The Limits of Geological Time.
4. Embryology.
Testimony of Scientists:
1. Embryology Only Analogical.
2. Embryos not all Alike.
3. Four Distinct Plans of Structure.
4. Germs Always True to the Breed.
5. Gradations of Species.
Lamarck's Statement.
Birth Descent not Inferable from Gradation.
No such Imperceptible Blending in Nature.
The Fact of the Present Existence of Distinct Species.
Sterility of Hybrids.
Geological Species Distinct.
The Intermediate Forms not Found.
The Gradation Does not Begin with the Lowest Forms.
Four Kingdoms from the Beginning.
The New Species Began with the Giants.
The Gaps Fatal to the Theory.
The Abyss Between Death and Life.
The Gulf Between the Plant and the Animal.
The Gaps Between Species Which will not Breed Together.
The Gaps Between Air Breathers and Water Breathers, &c.
The Great Gulf Between the Brute and the Man.
Natural Selection Could not Have Deprived a Monkey of Hair.
Nor Have Given a Human Brain.
The Brain-Worker Contravenes Natural Selection at Every Step.
Civilization the Contradiction of Natural Selection.
Morality and Religion the Direct Contraries of Natural Selection.
Tendency Immoral, Degrading, and Atheistic.

[CHAPTER III.]
Is God Everybody, and Everybody God?[91]
Pantheism Described.
An Antiquated Hindooism.
A Jesuitical Atheism.
Grossly Immoral.
A Practical Atheism.

[CHAPTER IV.]
Have We Any Need of the Bible?[112]
Civilization and the Bible.
Revelation Not Impossible.
The Mythical Theory.
The Inner Light.
Many Ignorant of God.
Heathen Morality—Plato's.
Infidel Morality—Paine's.

[CHAPTER V.]
Who Wrote the New Testament?[147]
The Bible Not Just Like Any Other Book.
Two Modes of Investigation.
Did the Council of Nice Make the Bible?
The Mythical Theory.
The Evidence of Celsus.
The Fragment Hypothesis.
The Bank Signature Book.
Could the New Testament be Corrupted?

[CHAPTER VI.]
Is the Gospel Fact or Fable?[169]
The Nature of Historical Evidence; Letters; Monuments.
Contemporary Letters of Peter, Pliny and John.
Prove the Existence of Churches.
And Their Worship, Holiness, and Sufferings.

[CHAPTER VII.]
Can We Believe Christ and His Apostles?[190]
The Gospel a Unit; Must Take or Refuse it All.
Apostles' Testimony Circumstantial.
Witnesses Numerous and Independent.
Confirm Their Testimony with Their Blood.

[CHAPTER VIII.]
Prophecy,[210]
Political—Napoleon's—Wrong.
Presidential Candidates.
Draper's Dogma of Youth and Decrepitude of Nations.
Statesmen Prophets.
General Claim for All Genius.
Instances of Secular Prediction:
Cayotte's of the French Revolution.
The Oracles of Apollo.
Vettius Valens' Twelve Vultures.
Spencer's of the Disruption of the American Union.
Saint Malachi's Prophecies.
Mohammed's Prophecies.
Seneca's of the Discovery of America.
Dante's of the Reformation.
Plato's of Shakespeare.
Symbolical Language of Prophecy.
Anybody may Predict Downfall of Nations.
An Awful Truth if it be True.
But Bible Predictions Circumstantial—Egypt; Babylon; Nineveh; Judea.
Predict Life and Resurrection.
The Arabs; Jews; Seven Churches; Messiah.

[CHAPTER IX.]
Moses and the Prophets,[266]
God the Author of the Bible.
Every Other Book Inspired?
Connection of Bible History and Morality.
Hume's Sophism. Miracles Being Violations of Laws of Nature, Contrary to an Unalterable Experience.
No Testimony can Reach to the Supernatural.
Records of Facts Not Judged by Your Notions.
Rationalistic Explanation of the Miracles.
Bible Account of Creation Unscientific.
Antiquity of Man.
The Anachronisms of the Pentateuch.
Bishop Colenso's Blunders:
The Universality of the Deluge.
Joshua Causing the Sun to Stand Still.
Cain's Wife.
Increase of Jacob's Family in Egypt.
The Number of the First-Born.
The Fourth Generation.
The Bishop's Blunders in Camp Life.
Sterility of the Wilderness.
Population of the Promised Land.
Modern Discoveries in Bible Lands.
Egyptian Monuments of Joseph.
Assyrian Ethnology and Genesis, Chaps. x. and xi.
Sennacherib's Conquest of Palestine.
Belshazzar's Kingship.
The Moabitic Inscriptions, and Omri and Ahab.
The Samaritan Pentateuch.
The Character of the Books—Austere.
Variety of Writers and Unity of Plan.
Contained the Surveys, and the Laws of the Nation.
Introduced New and Republican Usages.
Moses' Law in Advance of Modern Social Science.
Testimony of the Jewish Nation.
Testimony of Christ.
The Lost Books.
The Law Abolished by the Gospel.
The Imperfect Morality of Old Testament.
Polygamy, Slavery, and Divorce.
The Education of the World a Gradual Process.
The Imprecations of Scripture.

[CHAPTER X.]
Infidelity Among the Stars,[335]
Scientific Objections to the Bible.
The Infinity and Self-Existence of the Universe.
Disproved by
Its Evident Limits.
Its Composite Materials.
Its Steady Loss of Heat.
Buffon's Explosion of Planets.
The Nebular Theories.
The Fiction of Homogeneous Matter.
The Contradictory Theories.
The Perpetual Motion Machine.
Contrary to Facts of Astronomy.
Contradicted by Astronomers.
Impossibility of any Cosmogony.

[CHAPTER XI.]
Daylight Before Sunrise,[378]
Infidel Objections to Genesis.
The Hindoo Chronology.
The Egyptian Chronology.
The Bible Age of the Earth.
The Solid Firmament.
Light Before the Sun.

[CHAPTER XII.]
Telescopic Views of Scripture,[423]
The Source of the Water of the Deluge.
The Stars Fighting Against Sisera.
The Astronomers of the Great Pyramid.
The Grand Motion of the Sun.
The Formation of Dew.
The Multitude of the Stars.
The Descent of the Heavenly City.

[CHAPTER XIII.]
Science or Faith?[466]
Must Faith Fade Before Science?
Scientists as Partial as Other People.
Have no Such Certainty as is Claimed.
1. Mathematical Errors.
The Infinite Half Inch, Etc.
The Doctrine of Chances.
No Mathematical Figures in Nature.
The French Metric System.
The Lowell Turbine Wheel.
2. Errors of Astronomy.
Kant's Predictions; Le Verrier's.
Herschel's Enumeration of Errors.
Sun's Distance; Other Measurements.
The Moon's Structure and Influence.
La Place's Proposed Improvement.
The Sun's Structure, Heat, Etc.
The Sizes, Distances, and Densities of the Planets.
Errors About the Nebulæ.
Errors About Comets.
The Cosmical Ether.
The Cold of Infinite Space.
From This Chaos Springs the Theory of Development.
3. Errors of Geology.
No Fact of Geology Anti-Biblical.
All Anti-Biblical Theories Based on an If.
No Geological Measure of Time.

All Calculations of Time by Geologists, which Have Been Tested, HaveProved Erroneous—the Danish Bogs; the Swiss Lake Villager;Horner's Nile Pottery; the Raised Beaches of Scotland; Lyell's Blunderin the Delta of the Mississippi; Sir Wm. Thompson's Exposure of theAbsurdity of the Evolutionists' Demands for Time.

Conflicting Geological Theories—the Wernerian, Huttonian, andDiluvian Theories; the Catastrophists and Progressionists; ElevenTheories of Earthquakes; Nine Theories of Mountains; False Geology ofAmerica; Scotland Kicked About Too.

4. Errors of Zoology.
Lamarck's Vestiges; Tremaux; Darwin's Contradictions; Huxley; Mivart, and Wallace.
Blunders of the French Academy, Denouncing Quinine, Vaccination, Lightning Rods, and Steam Engines.
Uncertainty of Science Increases in Human Concerns.
Second-hand Science Founded on Somebody's Say So.
5. All Science Founded on Faith.
Reason Also Based on Faith.
This Life Depends on Faith.
We Demand Truths of which Science is Ignorant.
All Our Chief Concerns in the Domain of Faith.
Religion the Most Experimental of the Sciences.
The Only Science which can Make You Happy.
Try for Yourself.