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cent of the purchase money, we shall still feel that to leave such talent and 

 industry unrewarded would be a burden on our conscience which we were 

 not prepared to endure. But to William Carpenter, of London, will 

 ever belong the proud satisfaction of having been the author of one of the 

 most able displays of genius, perseverance, and intelligent acquaintance 

 with the scientific literature of the day, that Europe or America could 

 boast of. 



In saddling ourselves with the task of forcing this book on the notice 

 of an unprejudiced public, we pretend not to aspire to the honor of 

 martyrdom. Many sacrifices and many losses we are willing to submit to 

 in promoting a cause which deeply concerns the whole civilized world. We 

 are prepared to face, nay, we shall glory in patiently bearing the scorn of the 

 "philosopher,'" the insult of rude ignorance, the sarcasm of malice, the hired 

 censure of the sycophant critic (whose preferment depends on the prosti- 

 tution both of knowledge and conscience) as well as the virulent attacks of 

 the venal journalist. It would be a disgrace to an honest man and a Christian 

 not to incur the abuse of those who have sold their integrity and abilities to 

 the enemies of their country and their God. Truth will ultimately prevail 

 in the teeth of a world in arms. Columbus was despised, persecuted, and 

 treated with derision and unbelief; but America stands before the world 

 as a testimony to the truth and sagacity of his discovery. Many since 

 his time, unnoticed by the eye of pride, have had the honor to discover 

 and disseminate principles and doctrines that have promoted the welfare 

 and the happiness of the human race. All that was rich, influential, and 

 at that time popular, combined against Luther and the principles he 

 maintained. Yet when pontiffs, kings, and potentates had displayed their 

 impotent rage, and sunk into that oblivion which their personal insignifi- 

 cance naturally ensured, Luther prevailed ; his name and the truths he 

 advocated are alike, immortal ! He broke the chains of bigotry and 

 superstition, and though he was resisted by the whole world, he knew he 

 stood on a rock through which he could never sink, and behind a rampart 

 which could never be overthrown. 



The Science of the Bible is destined also to stand unmoved in spite of 

 the sneers of ten thousand objectors. Men may as well attempt to deny 

 the fact of the Creation itself, or of the first advent of the Son of God, as 

 to uphold the lying imposture of the Newtonian philosophy. 



Terrible as are the military struggles on the Continent of Europe, and 

 great as may be the dynastic, territorial, and political consequences, both 

 to governments and peoples, there is yet another war to be waged, greater 

 battles to be fought, far greater victories to be achieved, and still more 

 glorious changes to be wrought ere suffering and misguided humanity can 

 be at rest, or can enter upon that state of peace and true progression which 

 Philosophy and Religion have always promised as the happy condition of 

 a redeemed and renovated world When truth will reign supreme, and 

 falsehood be put to silence and to shame. When the wisdom of sound 

 reason and experience will prevail over the fallacies, contradictions, and 

 follies of imaginary theories. When man will cling to the true and reject 

 the false, irrespective of all consequences, and will cease to be the victim 

 of heathenish superstition, bigotry, and fraud. When the " earth will be 

 full of knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea," and no longer 

 remain, as it has been for ages, a reeking Pandemonium. 



One of the greatest of the great battles to be won is that of Scriptural 

 Science over the baseless calculations, falsely-called philosophy, of Coper- 

 nicus, Galileo, and Newton. To accomplish this glorious victory the contest 



