“Bishop Colenso’s books, in which the genuineness and authenticity of the earlier portions of the Old Testament are doubted, or, as he expresses it, his ‘arguments to prove the non-Mosaic and unhistorical character of the Pentateuch,’ have created intense interest in England.”—Chicago Post.
Man’s Cry, and God’s Gracious Answer,
A Contribution Toward the Defence of the Faith. By Rev. B. Franklin. Cloth, crimped, 50 cents.
“A thoughtful discussion of theism—or man’s need of a God, and what kind of a God; and of Christianity—or God’s gracious answer to that need, and how it is an answer.”—Congregationalist.
Prof. Huxley’s Lectures “On the Origin of Species.”
1 Vol. 12mo. $1.
1. The Present Condition of Organic Nature.—2. The Past Condition of Organic Nature.—3. The Method by which the Causes of the Present and Past Conditions of Organic Nature are to be discovered. The Origination of Living Beings.—4. The Perpetuation of Living Beings, Hereditary Transmission and Variation.—5. The Condition of Existence as affecting the Perpetuation of Living Beings.—6. A Critical Examination of the Position of Mr. Darwin’s Work “On the Origin of Species,” in relation to the complete Theory of the Causes of the Phenomena of Organic Nature.
“Readers who cannot accept Mr. Darwin’s doctrines and conclusions will still be delighted with these lectures, since they embody so much curious information and so many important principles of biological science, expressed so clearly as to render the book, even to readers possessing scarcely any previous knowledge of the subject, not only intelligible but more interesting than any romance.”—Weldon’s Register.