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THE
TESTIMONY OF THE ROCKS;
OR,
GEOLOGY IN ITS BEARINGS
ON THE
TWO THEOLOGIES, NATURAL AND REVEALED.
BY
HUGH MILLER,
AUTHOR OF "THE OLD RED SANDSTONE," "FOOTPRINTS OF THE
CREATOR," ETC., ETC.
WITH
MEMORIALS OF THE DEATH AND CHARACTER OF THE AUTHOR.
"Thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field."—Job.
BOSTON:
GOULD AND LINCOLN,
59 WASHINGTON STREET.
NEW YORK: SHELDON, BLAKEMAN & CO.
CINCINNATI: GEORGE S. BLANCHARD.
1857.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by
GOULD AND LINCOLN,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
Electro-Stereotyped
BY GEO. J. STILES,
23 Congress St., Boston.
TO
JAMES MILLER, ESQ., F.R.S.E.
PROFESSOR OF SURGERY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.
My Dear Sir,
This volume is chiefly taken up in answering, to the best of itsauthor's knowledge and ability, the various questions which the oldtheology of Scotland has been asking for the last few years of thenewest of the sciences. Will you pardon me the liberty I take indedicating it to you? In compliance with the peculiar demand of thetime, that what a man knows of science or of art he should freelycommunicate to his neighbors, we took the field nearly together aspopular lecturers, and have at least so far resembled each other in ourmeasure of success, that the same class of censors have been severe uponboth. For while you have been condemned as a physiologist for assertingthat the human framework, when fairly wrought during the week, isgreatly the better for the rest of the Sabbath, I have been described bythe same pen as one of the wretched class of persons who teach thatgeology, rightly understood, does not conflict with revelation. Besides,I owe it to your kindness that, when set aside by the indispositionwhich renders it doubtful whether I shall ever again address a popularaudience, you enabled me creditably to fulfil one of my engagements byreading for me in public two of the following discourses, and by doingthem an amount of justice on that occasion which could never have beendone them by their author. Further, your kind attentions and adviceduring the crisis of my illness