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Science and Art. 



THE YEAR-BOOK of FACTS in SCIENCE and ART ; ex- 

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%* This work, published annually ', records the proceedings of the 

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Science and Scripture. 



SCIENCE ELUCIDATIVE OF SCRIPTURE, AND NOT 

 ANTAGONISTIC TO IT ; being a Series of Essays on r. 

 Alleged Discrepancies ; 2. The Theory of the Geologists and 

 Figure of the Earth ; 3. The Mosaic Cosmogony ; 4. Miracles in 

 general Views of Hume and Powell ; 5. The Miracle of Joshua 

 Views of Dr. Colenso : The Supernaturally Impossible ; 6. The 

 Age of the Fixed Stars their Distances and Masses. By Professor 

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Practical Philosophy. 



A SYNOPSIS of PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY. By the Rev. 

 JOHN CARR, M. A., late Fellow of Trin. Coll., Cambridge. Second 

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