or All Men of One Blood, has been much expanded. Three new illustrations of my leading principle have been added, and largely treated; viz. the Origin of Man, the Origin of Life, and Design as indicating creation. In short, no pains have been spared to bring the treatise down to the present state of Science and the controversies of the present time, as far as they appertain to the subject I have taken in hand.

The book has been thus increased by about half the amount of matter which the last edition contained; but the price remains as before.

JOHN H. PRATT.

Calcutta, 1871.

THE HARMONY BETWEEN SCRIPTURE AND SCIENCE

VINDICATED BY AN APPEAL TO THE HISTORY

OF THE PAST.

CHAPTER

I.-EXAMPLES, FROM THE EARLIER HISTORY OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY,

IN WHICH SCRIPTURE HAS BEEN RELIEVED OF FALSE INTERPRE-

TATIONS, AND THE HARMONY OF SCRIPTURE AND SCIENCE THERE-

BY RE-ESTABLISHED

1. The Firmament. 2. Antipodes. 3. The Earth a Globe.

4. The Motion of the Earth.

II. EXAMPLES, FROM THE LATER HISTORY OF SCIENCE, IN WHICH

SCRIPTURE HAS NOT ONLY BEEN RELIEVED OF FALSE INTERPRE-

TATIONS, BUT HAS HAD NEW LIGHT REFLECTED UPON IT BY

THE DISCOVERIES OF SCIENCE

1. The Antiquity of the Earth. 2. Creatures in Existence

before the Six Days. 3. Existence of Light before the

Six Days. 4. Death in the World before Adam's Fall.

5. Specific Centres of Creation. 6. No Known Traces

of the Deluge. 7. The Deluge probably not over the

whole Earth.

III.-EXAMPLES, IN WHICH SCIENCE HAS BEEN DELIVERED FROM THE

FALSE CONCLUSIONS OF SOME OF ITS VOTARIES, AND THEREBY

SHOWN TO BE IN ENTIRE AGREEMENT WITH SCRIPTURE

1. All Men of one Blood. 2. Differences of Nations since

the Flood. 3. Mankind originally of One Language.

4. Age of the Human Race according to Hindoo and

Chinese Astronomy: 5. to Egyptian Antiquities: 6.

to Nile Deposits: 7. to Flint Remains. 8. The

Species of the Six Days' Creation distinct from pre-

Adamite Species. 9. Origin of Species. 10. Origin of

Man. 11. Origin of Life. 12. Uniformity of Nature.

13. Design. 14. Arithmetical Objections to the

Pentateuch.

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PART II.

THE HISTORICAL CHARACTER, PLENARY INSPIRA-

TION, AND SURPASSING IMPORTANCE, OF THE

FIRST ELEVEN CHAPTERS OF GENESIS.

CHAPTER

I. THE HISTORICAL CHARACTER AND PLENARY INSPIRATION OF

THE FIRST ELEVEN CHAPTERS OF GENESIS

1. Our Lord and His Apostles regarded them as Historical

documents. 2. This being the case, their Inspiration

follows from the nature of their contents. 3. As they

are original and not borrowed-Their freedom from

Error

II. THE SURPASSING IMPORTANCE OF THESE CHAPTERS

1. They are of unrivalled Antiquity. 2. They tell us of the

Origin of the World. 3. Of the Entrance of Evil into

the World. 4. They explain the contradictions we see

in Man. 5. They show the true basis of Physical

Science, and the credibility of a Divine Incarnation.

6. They detect the essence of all successful Tempta-

tion. 7. They convey remarkable facts in History, the

Institution of Marriage and of the Sabbath, the Deluge,

the Confusion of Tongues, the apportioning of the

Earth to the Nations, the Institution of Sacrifices.

8. They contain the germ of all Prophecy, the promise

of the Seed of the Woman, and the prediction of the

destinies of the descendants of Shem, Ham, and Japhet.

CONCLUSION.

NO NEW DISCOVERIES, HOWEVER STARTLING, NEED DISTURB OUR

BELIEF IN THE PLENARY INSPIRATION OF SCRIPTURE, OR

DAMP OUR ZEAL IN THE PURSUIT OF SCIENCE .

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SCRIPTURE AND SCIENCE NOT AT

VARIANCE.

INTRODUCTION.

TAND PLAN OF THE PRESENT TREATISE.

, not unfrequently made, that the disce are opposed to the declarations of is as mischievous as it is false, because call in question the Inspiration of the and to throw discredit upon scientific

are predisposed to reject such a congeneral conviction that Scripture is the re nevertheless at a loss for arguments rge. It is the object of the following pages to furnish such persons with a reply, in a concise and portable form. The treatise, therefore, is intentionally only a summary of arguments. To expand it, except by the addition of new illustrations, would defeat my design. A larger work would not find access where I hope this will. There are others also whose case it is here designed to meet-those who receive the Christian Revelation, but, under the influence of supposed difficulties brought to light by scientific dis

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