The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science

THE - ORIGIN OF THE WORLD, - ACCORDING TO - REVELATION AND SCIENCE. - By J. W. DAWSON, LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S., - PRINCIPAL AND VICE-CHANCELLOR OF M'GILL UNIVERSITY, MONTREAL; AUTHOR OF "ACADIAN GEOLOGY," "THE STORY OF THE EARTH AND MAN," "LIFE'S DAWN ON EARTH," ETC.

NEW YORK: - HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, - FRANKLIN SQUARE. - 1877. - TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF DUFFERIN, K.P., K.C.B., ETC., GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF CANADA, This Work is Respectfully Dedicated, AS A SLIGHT TRIBUTE OF ESTEEM TO ONE WHO GRACES THE HIGHEST POSITION IN THE DOMINION OF CANADA BY HIS EMINENT PERSONAL QUALITIES, HIS REPUTATION AS A STATESMAN AND AN AUTHOR, AND HIS KIND AND ENLIGHTENED PATRONAGE OF EDUCATION, LITERATURE, AND SCIENCE.

[Transcriber's note: All footnotes are renumbered and moved to the end of the text before the index.]

THE ORIGIN OF THE WORLD.

CHAPTER I. THE MYSTERY OF ORIGINS AND ITS SOLUTIONS. "The things that are seen are temporal."—Paul.

CHAPTER II. OBJECTS AND NATURE OF A REVELATION OF ORIGINS.

CHAPTER III. OBJECTS AND NATURE OF A REVELATION OF ORIGINS—Continued.

CHAPTER IV. THE BEGINNING. "In the beginning Elohim created the heavens and the earth."—Genesis i., 1.

CHAPTER V. THE DESOLATE VOID. "And the earth was desolate and empty, and darkness was upon the surface of the deep; and the Spirit of God moved on the surface of the waters."—Genesis i., 2.

CHAPTER VI. LIGHT AND CREATIVE DAYS. "And God said, Let light be, and light was; and God saw the light that it was good, and separated the light from the darkness; and God called the light Day; and the darkness he called Night. And Evening was and Morning was—Day one."— Genesis i., 3-5.