The Old Red Sandstone; or, New Walks in an Old Field — John Stuart Mill — John Shaqi
The Old Red Sandstone; or, New Walks in an Old Field
John Stuart Mill · en
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FOOT-PRINTS OF THE CREATOR;
-- OR --
THE ASTEROLEPIS OF STROMNESS.
BY HUGH MILLER.
WITH MANY ILLUSTRATIONS.
FROM THE THIRD LONDON EDITION.--WITH A MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR
BY LOUIS AGASSIZ.
"In its purely geological character, the 'Foot-prints' is not
surpassed by any modern work of the same class. In this volume,
Mr. Miller discusses the development hypothesis, or the hypothesis
of natural law, as maintained by Lamarck, and by the author of the
4 Vestiges of Creation,' and has subjected it, in its geological
aspect, to the most rigorous examination. He has stripped even of its
semblance of truth, and restored to the Creator, as governor cf the
universe, that power and those functions which he was supposed to
have resigned at its birth. * * * The earth has still to surrender
mighty secrets,--and great revelations are yet to issue from
sepulchres of stone. It is from the vaults to which ancient life
has been consigned that the history of the dawn of life is to be
composed."--_North British Review._