The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science, by John William Dawson This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science Author: John William Dawson Release Date: July 2, 2010 [EBook #33049] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ORIGIN OF THE WORLD *** Produced by Bryan Ness, ismail user and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from scans of public domain works at the University of Michigan's Making of America collection.) [Transcriber's note: All footnotes are renumbered and moved to the end of the text before the index.] 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. "Speak to the Earth, and it shall teach thee." —Job. NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE. 1877. TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF DUFFERIN, K.P., K.C.B., ETC.