Science Elucidative of Scripture, and not antagonistic to it. Being a Series of Essays on—1. Alleged Discrepancies; 2. The Theories of the Geologists and Figure of the Earth; 3. The Mosaic Cosmogony; 4. Miracles in general—Views of Hume and Powell; 5. The Miracle of Joshua—Views of Dr. Colenso: The Supernaturally Impossible; 6. The Age of the Fixed Stars—Their Distances and Masses. By Professor J. R. Young, Author of ‘A Course of Elementary Mathematics,’ &c. &c. Fcap. 8vo. price 5s. cloth lettered.
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