Status
Available
Publication
Edinburgh [etc.]: W. Blackwood, 1853, 127 pp
Language
Physical description
iv, 127 p.; 17 cm
Local notes
54: "...the enlightened and pious philosophy of the present day recognises as a fact. on the authority of revelation, which has recorded it in language of ineffable awe and sublimity, that the human species came upon the planet in virtue of a direct act of creation by the Almighty."
92: "Thus, then, the new and brilliant science of geology attests that man was the last of created beings in this planet. If her *data* be consistent and true, and worthy of scientific consideration, she affords conclusive evidence that, as we are told in Scripture, he cannot have occupied the earth longer than *six thousand years*."
92: "Thus, then, the new and brilliant science of geology attests that man was the last of created beings in this planet. If her *data* be consistent and true, and worthy of scientific consideration, she affords conclusive evidence that, as we are told in Scripture, he cannot have occupied the earth longer than *six thousand years*."