Earth's Earliest Ages

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. N 1876 the author of the present volume published a smaller book, entitled Earth''s Earliest Ages and Their Lessons for Us, in which his object was twofold. He first attempted to remove some of the Geological and other difficulties usually associated with the commencing chapters of Genesis; and then endeavoured to show that the characteristic features of the Days of Noah were reappearing in Christendom, and, therefore, that the Days of the Son of Man could not be far distant. For guidance in his efforts after the first of these aims, he adopted the following obvious principles — which, if they be admitted, render the interpretation easy and precise, and anticipate every possible Geological objection. I. That the first chapter of Genesis, equally with those which follow it, is, in its primary meaning, neither vision nor allegory, but plain history, and must, therefore, be accepted as a literal statement of facts.