Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustration. See 50086-h.htm or 50086-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50086/50086-h/50086-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50086/50086-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries. See https://archive.org/details/creationorevolut00curtuoft Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Text enclosed by equal signs is in bold face (=bold=). CREATION OR EVOLUTION? A Philosophical Inquiry. by GEORGE TICKNOR CURTIS. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1, 3, And 5 Bond Street. 1887. Copyright, 1887. by George Ticknor Curtis. TO LEWIS A. SAYRE, M. D., WHOSE PROFESSIONAL EMINENCE IS RECOGNIZED IN BOTH HEMISPHERES, WHOSE SKILL AS A SURGEON SUFFERING HUMANITY GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGES, TO WHOSE ANATOMICAL LEARNING THE AUTHOR IS LARGELY INDEBTED, AND OF WHOSE FRIENDSHIP HE IS PROUD, This Book IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED. "_Dost thou not know, my new astronomer! Earth, turning from the sun, brings night to man? Man, turning from his God, brings endless night; Where thou canst read no morals, find no friend, Amend no manners, and expect no peace._" _YOUNG'S NIGHT THOUGHTS._ PREFACE. Perhaps it is expected of a writer who steps out of the sphere of his ordinary pursuits, and deals with such a subject as that which is treated in this work, that he will account for his so doing. It is not necessary for me to say that no class of men can have a monopoly in any subject. But I am quite willing to take my readers into my confidence so far as to state how I came to write this book.