“It is the most sensible treatise on the question of a first creation ever published and should be taught in the public schools. The book is a credit to the intelligence of the age.”—Santa Ana, (Cal.) Bulletin.
“The argument is unanswerable.... The book will at once appeal to the reason of every reader, and leave him more amazed than ever at the prevalence of the theory of Creation.”—The Arena, Boston.
“He employs the resources of both logic and scientific discovery in a convincing and common-sense way, and ought not to offend the feelings of the most orthodox who is willing to argue honestly.”—Review of Reviews, New York and London.
... “In my judgment it surpasses anything that has ever been written on the subject.... Every thinking man and woman on earth should be sure to read the book, as they will learn something that will live in their minds as long as memory lasts.”—T. J. Edwards, M. D., Oblong, Ill.
“I consider it one of the greatest masterpieces along its line ever written. With one blow the author knocks out the First Cause theory for the material universe, and, with the clearest and most logical reasoning, he causes the veil of orthodox superstition to rend from top to bottom.”—P. M. Harmon, late Pastor of the People’s Church, at Spring Valley, Minn.
“It deserves a place among the strong books of the age ... evolves a world which bristles with life and thought.... To me as entertaining as a story.”—Moses Folsom, St. Paul, Minn.
“The links of its logic are riveted very firmly together, and ‘No Beginning’ is simply unanswerable.... The book is a rare gem of precious thought and will do great good in the world.”—Dr. W. H. Gibbon, Chariton, Iowa.
“While the author’s smooth, argumentative style, logical methods and cogent reasonings, exhibit the keen conception and consummate skill of a well-trained legal mind, the kindly spirit of toleration of views, adverse to the thought presented, reveals the generous-hearted, noble-souled manhood with which the author is inspired.”—Chariton (Iowa) Herald.
STRIKINGLY BOLD AND ORIGINAL.
“The book is a strikingly bold and original argument, ... is compact, systematically built up and controversially formidable.... It [the last chapter] amounts to a very drastic, indeed, destructive criticism of Herbert Spencer’s argument for an ‘Unknowable Absolute.’”—Chicago Chronicle.