Vestiges of the natural history of creation / [Anon].

  • Robert Chambers
Date:
1844
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    the latter kind which may be thought inconsistent with mine, because to do so would have been to enter upon questions for the settlement of which our knowledge is not yet ripe. Let the recon- ciliation of whatever is true in my views with whatever is true in other systems come about in the fulness of calm and careful inquiry. I cannot but here remind the reader of what Dr. Wiseman has shewn so strikingly in his lectures, how different new philosophic doctrines are apt to appear after we have become somewhat familiar with them. Geology at first seems inconsistent with the authority of the Mosaic record. A storm of un- reasoning indignation rises against its teachers. In time, its truths, being found quite irresistible, are admitted, and mankind continue to regard the Scriptures with the same respect as before. So also with several other sciences. Now the only objec- tion that can be made on such ground to this book, is, that it brings forward some new hypotheses, at first sight, like geology, not in perfect har- mony with that record, and arranges all the rest into a system which partakes of the same character. But may not the sacred text, on a liberal inter- pretation, or with the benefit of new light re- flected from nature, or derived from learning, be
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