The Zoologist— July, 1871. 2667 



The Biblical Antiquity of Man ; or, Man not older than the 

 Adamic Creation ; being a consideration of his Biblical, 

 Archceological and Geological History, and designed to meet 

 the Theories respecting Man's Origin and Great Antiquity 

 advocated in recent Geological Works and Papers. By 

 the Rev. S. Lucas, F.G.S., &c. London : Whittaker & Co. 

 320 pp. post 8vo. 



As Mr. Darwin's work is a confessed and undisguised attempt 

 to show that man was not created in his present mature and 

 erect form, but has been gradually evolved through unnumbered 

 generations from some lower and more rudimentary animal, so 

 Mr. Lucas's work is a confessed and undisguised attempt to prove 

 that man was created in his present God-like form as described in 

 the Bible. Whether it be wise in a clergyman to enter on this 

 zoological or physiological question, and whether he were not 

 better employed in teaching Bible truth, without reference to its 

 bearing on Zoology or Physiology, is I think a matter fairly open 

 to question; indeed Mr. Lucas himself is somewhat severe on 

 those of his brethren who have rushed headlong into the war of 

 words now raging between the evolutionists and their opponents, 

 the defenders of Scripture. He writes thus in reference to the 

 latter, and I must say that I entirely sympathize with him in his 

 objection to this energetic branch of literature. As that noble 

 animal the bull is said to rush to combat with invincible courage 

 and all but supertaurian strength, yet still to lake the singular 

 precaution of closing his eyes, so do these literary combatants 

 forego the use of reason, that eye of the mind, before tliey rush to 

 battle. There is an amusing little sketch-book intituled the 

 'French painted by Themselves,' which seems to have suggested 

 to Mr. Lucas such paragraphs as the following. T am unhappily, 

 or happily, as some of ray readers may possibly think, unacquainted 

 with the publications especially mentioned. 



"With just indignation we spurn all such so-called defences of Scripture 

 truth, and utterly disown all fellowship of sentiment with their authors. 

 We believe indeed that they cannot be too zealously nor too unsparingly 

 denounced. We do not hesitate to say that such crudities and vagaries 



