THE

PRE-ADAMITE EARTH:

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THEOLOGICAL SCIENCE.

BY JOHN HARRIS, D. D.

SECOND THOUSAND.

The present is the first of a series of volumes projected by the Author; each volume to be complete in itself, and will appear at intervals. By a special arrangement with the AUTHOR, the American Publishers will be supplied with the early sheets of the future volumes of this series, and will issue them simultaneously with the London Edition.

NOTICES OF THE PRESS.

It seems to us a very successful specimen of the synthetical mode of reasoning. It puts the mind on a new track, and is well fitted to awaken its energies and expand its views. We have never seen the natural sciences, particularly Geology, made to give so decided and unimpeachable a testimony to revealed truth. He appears to allow it all that it can justly claim, all indeed that its advocates can fairly claim for 11, while the integrity and truth of the Scriptures are maintained inviolate. And the wonders of God's works, which he has here grouped together, convey a most magnifieent and even overpowering idea of the Great Creator. We wish that we could devote a week, uninterruptedly, to its perusal and re perusal.-Christian Mirror, Portland.

A work of theological science, not to be passed over with a glance, and not to be understood on a cursory perusal. It applies certain principles or laws to the successive stages of the pre-Adamite earth; to the historical development of man; to the Findly; to the meion; to the Son of God; to the church; to the Bible revelation, and to the future prospects of humanity. It is a carefully prepared volume, calculated to assist an understanding of important truths, and of the great ends of Creation. Transcript, Beta.

This is a work to be studied-in which profound principles are presented and discussed in relations which will awaken the energies and enlarge the views of disciplined minds. It is a book for thinking men. It opens new trains of thought to the rader-puts him in a new position to survey the wonders of God's works; and compel Natural Science to bear her decided testimony in support of divine truth.Paiad. Christiaa Observer.

His object is to reconcile the theology and the geology of the age, by showing what can be proved in regard to the progressive steps of creation, prior to the formation of the first man. We cannot go into the deruls of the argument, but will assure our readers that no man can examine the work without feeling that he is in contact, with a man of science, a e'ear reasoner, a candid disputant, and a devout Christian and Philosopher.-Limancipator, Boston.

The superficial reader will not submit to be tasked by its severe and profound reasonings; but the man who finds his clement among great thoughts, and is not afraid to push into the remoter regions of abstract truth, be he philosopher or theologian, or both, will read it over and over, an I will and his intellect quickened, as if from being in contact with a new and glorious creation.-Abang Argas.

In applying his principles, Dr. Harris states in a lucid, succinct, and often highly eloquent manner, all the leading facts of geology, and their beautiful harmony with the teachings of Scripture. As a work of padontology in its relation to Scripture, it will be one of the most complete and popular extant. It evinces great research, clear and rigid reasoning, and a style more condensed and beautiful than is usually found in a work so profound. It will be an invaluable contribution to Biblical Science.-New York Evangelist.

He is a sound logician and lucid rersoner, getting nearer to the groundwork of a subject generally supposed to have very uncertain data, thau any other writer within our knowledge.-New York Com. Advertiser.

More philosophical than Dr. Harris's works have usu ly been, it nevertheless is written in the glowing aaleliqusat styl, which has won for him a universal fame, and will secure a wide circle of readers.-Ace York Recorder.

I.

THE EARTH AND MAN:

Lectures on Comparative Physical Geography, considered in its Relation to the History of Mankind. BY ARNOLD GUYOT, Prof. Phys. Geo. & Hist., Neuchatel. Translated from the French, by PROF. C. C. FELTON.-With Illustrations.

From Prof. Louis Agassiz.

"I understand that you are about publishing the lectures of Prof. Guyot on Physical Geography. Having been his friend from childhood, as a fellow student in college, and as a colleague in the same university, I may be permitted to express my high sense of the value of his attainments. Mr. Guyot has not only been at the best school, that of the Ritter and Humboldt, and become familiar with the present state of the science of our earth, but he has himself, in many instances, drawn new conclusions from the facts now ascertained, and presented most of them in a new point of view. Several of the most brilliant generalizations developed in his lectures, are .his; and if more extensively circulated, will not only render the study of geography more attractive, but actually show it in its true light, namely, as the science of the relations which exist between nature and man, throughout history; of the contrasts observed between the different parts of the globe; of the laws of horizontal and vertical forms of the dry land, in its contact with the sea; of climate, &c. It would be highly servicable, it seems to me, for the benefit of schools and teachers, that you should induce Mr. Guyot to write a series of graduated text-books of geography, from the first elements, up to a scientific treatise. It would give new life to these studies, in this country, and be the best preparation for sound statistical investigations."

WAYLAND'S

II.

UNIVERSITY SERMONS.
Sermons delivered in Brown University.

BY FRANCIS WAYLAND.

CONTENTS.-Theoretical Atheism. Practical Atheism. The Moral Character of Man, Love to God. The Fall of Man. Justification by Works Impossible. Preparation for the Advent of The Messiah. The Work of the Messiah. Justification by Faith. A Day in the Life of Jesus of Nazareth. The Fall of Peter. The Church of Christ. The Unity of the Church The Duty of Obedience to the Civil Magistrates. The recent Revolutions in Europe.

Or True Liberty, as exhibited in the Life, Precepts, and Early Disciples of the Great Redeemer. BY E. L. MAGOON, Author of "Proverbs for the People," "Orators of the American Revolution," etc.

IV.

A HISTORY OF

AMERICAN BAPTIST MISSIONS,

In all parts of the World, from their earliest commencement to the present time. Prepared under the direction of the American Baptist Missionary Union.

BY WILLIAM GAMMELL, A. M., Professor in Brown University.

V.

THE CHURCH IN EARNEST.

BY JOHN ANGELL JAMES.

VI.

SACRED RHETORIC:

Or the Composition and Delivery of Sermons; including WARE'S HINTS ON EXTEMPORANEOUS PREACHING.

BY HENRY J. RIPLEY, Prof. in Newton Theological Institution.