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SKETCHES OF CREATION: A Popular View of Some of the Grand Conclusions of the Sciences In Reference to the History of Matter and Of Life. Together With a Statement of the Intimations of Science Respecting the Primordial Condition and the Ultimate Destiny of the Earth and the Solar System. By Alexander Winchell, LL.D. Published in 1870 by Harper & Brothers, New York. Illustrated. 459 pages.
Condition: GOOD ANTIQUE CONDITION. Exterior as shown in photo, light wear. Good binding. Text is clean and complete, light foxing, etc. No torn, loose or missing pages. Ex-libris plate inside front cover.
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SKETCHES OF CREATION is a richly illustrated Victorian book which elucidates the prevailing thoughts of the day on how the Earth and all the life upon it came to be. Aimed at a popular audience, it is an engaging mix of science and theology by an author who wasn’t afraid to question beliefs as old as the Bible.
For example, Winchell observes that Noah\'s flood can’t account for all the layers of fossils embedded in mountains. He gives vivid descriptions of our exotic planet long before people lived on it, when the roly-poly trilobite scurried across the sea floor, and the giant frog-like Labyrinthodon lumbered over land. He supports every assertion with sound science, but at the same time insists that all the mountain building, mountain eroding, rising and sinking continents, creeping glaciers and, perhaps most important of all, deposition of oil and coal deposits, were overseen by a creator taking the long view to prepare the planet just for us.
A contemporary review in The Historical Magazine said of SKETCHES OF CREATION:
This work is entitled to more of our time and space than we can possibly bestow on it. It is a concentrated statement of the great results of modern Science concerning the history of matter and of life; concerning what we term the progress of Creation, and what has been styled the six “days” of the primal Creation of all things.
In thus presenting this great subject, the learned author has done a service to more than one class of readers. Even the scholar will find the volume a welcome one, since it enables him to survey the entire field of his research, from one point of sight, without the distracting intrusion of details : how much more welcome, then, must it be to the general non-professional ‘or unscientific reader, unto whom even the great general truths of modern Science are too much a mystery.
Unto every one (unless to those who cannot understand the revelation by the Scriptures except in a strictly literal sense), this volume will be a most welcome one; and every sober, thinking reader of it will rise from his perusal of its well-considered and well-written pages. if he shall have read them honestly, a more humble and devout Christian and a more intelligent and a better man.
The author himself states in the Preface:
The author cannot resist the conviction that Nature is intended as a revelation of God to all intelligences … To all those who love to hold communion with the thoughts embodied in the “visible forms” of Nature; who delight to contemplate the sublime, persistent, all-comprehending, and beneficent plans of Deity unfolding through geological cycles toward definite and intelligible ends, in short, to all who love to “Look through Nature up to Nature’s God,” these pages are respectfully submitted.
CONTENTS ARE:
Chapter One ~ Disclosure of the Subject
Chapter Two ~ The Ordeal By Water
Chapter Three ~ The Ordeal By Fire
Chapter Four ~ The Solar Systsem in a Blaze
Chapter Five ~ The Reign of Fire
Chapter Six ~ Old Ocean Commences Work
Chapter Seven ~ A Ray of Life
Chapter Eight ~ The Front of the Procession of Life
Chapter Nine ~ Discovery of the Programme
Chapter Ten ~ The Garden of Stone Lilies
Chapter Eleven ~ The Fairy Sailor and His Cousins
Chapter Twelve ~ Onward Through the Ages
Chapter Thirteen ~ An Underground Excursion
Chapter Fourteen ~ The Scenery of the Coal Period
Chapter Fifteen ~ The Scouts of the Reptile Horde
Chapter Sixteen ~ Reign of the Reptiles
Chapter Seventeen ~ The Geography of the Empire of Reptiles
Chapter Eighteen ~ The Reign of Mammals
Chapter Nineteen ~ The Reign of Ice
Chapter Twenty ~ Labors of the Ice-Born Torrents, and the Ocean Burial
Chapter Twenty-One ~ Resurrection of the Continent
Chapter Twenty-Two ~ Former Higher Level of the Great Lakes
Chapter Twenty-Three ~ Vitality of Buried Vegetable Germs
Chapter Twenty-Four ~ Prairies and Their Treelessness
Chapter Twenty-Five ~ Something About Oil
Chapter Twenty-Six ~ Something About Rock Salt and Gypsum
Chapter Twenty-Seven ~ Method in the Growth of Continents
Chapter Twenty-Eight ~ Method in the History of Life
Chapter Twenty-Nine ~ World Thoughts
Chapter Thirty ~ Anticipations of Man in Nature
Chapter Thirty-One ~ The Tooth of Time
Chapter Thirty-Two ~ Primeval Man
Chapter Thirty-Three ~ Will There Be an Animal Superior to Man?
Chapter Thirty-Four ~ Popular Beliefs in Periodical Catastrophes to the Universe
Chapter Thirty-Five ~ Some Thoughts on Perpetual Motion
Chapter Thirty-Six ~ Will The Mountains Be Leveled?
Chapter Thirty-Seven ~ The Reign of Universal Winter
Chapter Thirty-Eight ~ The Sun Cooling Off
Chapter Thirty-Nine ~ The Machinery of the Heavens Running Down
Chapter Forty ~ The Cycles of Matter
Remember folks, this is an 1875 original. This book is 149 years old.
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