FOOTPRINTS OF THE CREATOR OR THE ASTEROLEPIS OF STROMNESS BY HUGH MILLER 1802 1856 WITH MEMOIR BY LOUIS AGASSIZ Fourteenth Edition. EDINBURGH WILLIAM P. NIMMO HUGH MILLER, AUTHOR OF "OLD RED SANDSTONE" AND "FOOTPRINTS OF THE CREATOR." THE geological works of Hugh Miller have excited the greatest interest, not only among scientific men, but also among general readers. There is in them a freshness of conception, a power of argumentation, a depth of thought, a purity of feeling, rarely met with in works of that character, which are well calculated to call forth sympathy, and to increase the popularity of a science which has already done so much to expand our views of the Plan of Creation. The scientific illustrations published by Mr Miller are most happily combined with considerations of a higher order, rendering both equally acceptable to the thinking reader. But what is in a great degree peculiar to our author is the successful combination of Christian doctrines with pure scientific truths. On that account his works deserve peculiar attention. His generalizations have nothing of the vagueness which too often characterize the writings of those authors who have attempted to make the results of science subservient to the cause of religion. Struck with the beauty of Mr Miller's works, it has for some time past been my wish to see them more extensively circulated in this country; and I have obtained leave 340345 |