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The ¦• ¦ Past ' ¦ .» . and William Prese...
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Egyptian Chromo At A Palmyra Beaufort Se...
_jfcjQxtdl _pf the Jox tree -dan and , where wash _wes off were the uncomfortable glad to undress feeling again of , under the ' bad the water shade ' the a
Jordan y did not , look as . inviting as the Dead Sea . It is muddy and of a ; dark leaden colorand we found the water very coldbut it was refreshing and
pleasant . " , , In conclusionwe have only to add that the illustrations and map
are worthy of the , text , and that there are few personally unacquainted with Egypt and Syria who will not find both pleasure and
profit in the perusal of these delightful volumes .
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NOTICES' OF BOOKS . 421
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The ¦• ¦ Past ' ¦ . » . and William Present Blackwood Life of and the Sons Globe , E . dinburg By David h and Page London . Published . by
_lusr this book Mr . Page proves himself a skilful compiler , in some parts an eloquent writerand on the whole a man acquainted with _,
, the highest ideas of geologicalscience . Palaeontology , or the science of extinct life , is not a theme
merely for the gratification of idle curiosity . It leads to sounder and more ennobling views of our relationship to God and creation .
It shows irrefi ? agible proofs of the unity of plan and design throughout creation , enlarging in the mind of man- his conception
of Deity , and increasing his . reverence toward Him . "We would note for the geological scholar the chapters entitled the Present , the
Heeord , the Far Past , and the Middle Past , and for the ordinary reader ¦¦ the ¦ chapters ¦ entitle ¦ d ¦ the ¦ Recent '¦ , the ' Law , ¦ and the
Conclusion . ' . ; ' ; . " . .. . . .. . _ . _-. ; . ' .. ::., / . . Wisely he does not precise how and by what means this earth became the procreant cradle of organized existences . Was it by a
direct action , by a , fiat of the Creator , or by causation inherent in the vital organism ? He does not admit the transubstantiation
of species , but their gradation and progress ; and with respect to the human race or primeval man , who hunted the Irish deer and
speared the mammoths ; of whom we are the successors , even as after us we shall have also successors of a higher type than we are
ourselves ; for as Nature offers no symptom of decay , so we cannot admit the idea of cessation in creation , but on the contrary , the
have advent become of new extinct races , and . •¦' ¦ According new creatures to the to rep author lace those the term which of shall the
human raceas well as of those domesticated animals , on which the . race so much , relies , will be brief , but during its sojourn its
influence on the wor _^^^ onward progress will be remarkable . It will become a reasoning instrn ment in the hand of the Creator to effect
most important changes in the vitality of the _glolbe , to add the mentalitof ihe future to the materialism and mechanism of the pastin
the fulfilment y of the great . law ofv natural progress . The inferior , races are and will be vanishing before the higher . Their continuance
would only retard the divine scheme of advancement , to which everything above , beneath , aiicl . around us , , has . ever been incessantly
_tending , . , . ; _, < .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1861, page 421, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081861/page/61/
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