Critical Opinions Regarding the First Edition of the Present Work, which Was Issued under the Title of "Illogical Geology" (1906) "I have been intensely interested in your 'Illogical Geology,' and I think you prove your points conclusively." Lew Trenchard, England. THE REV. S. BARING-GOULD, Author of "Onward, Christian Soldiers.” DAVID STARR JORDAN, President of Leland Stanford University. "I do not see why the argument is not scientific and demonstrative. It seems to me that you have demonstrated the hopelessly unscientific character of the hitherto accepted geological notions." PROF. WILLIAM CLEAVER WILKINSON, "My first impression of the work is that it may serve a useful purpose in orienting geologists as to the correct appearance of their views upon the leading problems of the science. "As a geologist, I some time ago ceased to theorize. I am simply noting facts and trying to explain them." C. W. HALL, Professor of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Minnesota. "I must confess that I have never read anything clearer and more convincing on the subject. It seems to me final, so far as the evolutionary theories and claims go." WILLIAM G. MOOREHEAD, President of Xenia Theological Seminary, Xenia, Ohio. "The book ought to have a place among college text-books." PROF. LUTHER T. TOWNSEND, Boston University. "There are many things in your book which start reflection, and show how far we are from having yet attained settled results in the study of the rocks. . . I shall probably hear more of your book as time goes on."' PROF. JAMES ORR, United Free Church College, Glasgow, Scotland. “I think you have brought out with great clearness the difficulties of supporting the evolution theory from the geological side." PROF. GEO. HOWARD PARKER, Department of Zoology, Harvard University. "Many thanks for your book, which I have read with much interest. Sir H. Howorth's arguments from the presence of herds of mammoths, etc., in places where they must have been overwhelmed by a sudden catastrophe, have always seemed to me very strong, and have never yet been answered by 'orthodox' geology." PROF. A. H. SAYCE, Oxford University, England. "It is a remarkable piece of logical reasoning. You are a cogent writer, and I am glad we have you on the side of 'primal orthodoxy.'' PROF. FRANKLIN JOHNSON, University of Chicago. |