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Continental Monthly Volume 5 Issue 4 unknown Various
 
  Continental Monthly, Volume 5, Issue 4 unknown Various. Continental Monthly, Volume 5, Issue 4 Produced by Joshua Hutchinson, Janet Blenkinship and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by Cornell University Digital Collections) THE CONTINENTAL MONTHLY: DEVOTED TO LITERATURE AND NATIONAL POLICY. VOL. V.-APRIL, 1864.-No. IV. SIR CHARLES LYELL ON THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN.[1] When Thomas Chalmers, sixty years ago, lecturing at St. Andrews, ventured to announce his conviction that 'the writings of Moses do not fix the antiquity of the globe,' he startled and alarmed, to no small degree, the orthodoxy of the day. It was a statement far in advance of the religious thinking of the time. That massive breadth and comprehensiveness of intellect which soon placed him, _facile_princeps_, at the head of the clergy of Scotland, joined with a candor, and ingenuouus honesty, which made him admired and beloved by all, could not fail to perceive, and would not hesitate to acknowledge, the force of the evidence then for some time slowly but steadily and surely accumulating from the investigations and discoveries of geological science, which has forced back the origin of the earth to a vast and undated antiquity.

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