Furniss, James J. The Anonymous Hypothesis of Creation: A Brief Review of the So-Called Mosaic Account. New York: Charles P. Somerby, 1877. First Edition. [11215]
Green publisher's cloth, gilt title to front, damp stains to binding with some raised/wrinkled portions of the cloth on both front and back. 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches, 54, [1], pp., erratum slip tipped in, publisher's catalogue. The text is clean. Fair. Hardcover.
The author applies 19th-century science to the Biblical record of Creation and finds the Mosaic account to be ridiculous and full of scientific errors. He concludes that believers must abandon the theory of the divine inspiration of the Bible.
"Bibliolatry is doomed. Legends and traditions, though hoary with the lapse of ages, can no longer maintain, unquestioned, their authority. The mists of superstition are disappearing before the light of an ever-increasing intelligence...As often as attempts are made to impede the progress of science, by making obstacles out of prejudices which were born of ignorance during the childhood of humanity, just so often will such attempts meet with disaster and defeat; for science is truth, and truth like an Alpine glacier moves onward slowly, gradually, but irresistibly." - p. 54.
