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REVIEWS. 
Creation Redemptive ; n Coiitriljidioii to Theolor/ical Science. By Rev. S. Lucas, 
E.G.S. Hclstoii : R. Ciiiinaek. 1858. 
Altliough we rarely, aud tlieu but briefly, make any remarks on theological 
topics in connection with geology, we by no means regard in an unfavourable 
aspect tiie numerous treatises and works published with the view to bring into 
comparison or reconciliation the passages of Holy Writ with the doctrines or 
teacniugs of purely physical science. Such attempts arc generally m themselves 
very praiseworthy, both for the incentive tliat causes them to be produced as well 
as for the spirit in which most of them are penned. In the unpretentious work, 
whose title heads these remarks, the order and incidents of Creation are re- 
garded as exhibiting a special design in special relation towards the appearance 
of the Saviour and the redemption of man. 
Pre-adamite Man ; or the Sfori/ of our Old Planet and its Inhahitants told by 
Scripture and Science. London : Saunders, Otley, and Co., Conduit-street. 
1860. 
As we have already said, we are by no means averse to books of a theologico- 
geological tendency. We know, alas, how much bad theology, aud how much 
bad geology there is in them ; but we know, also, and appreciate the motives 
of the writers, and as such books are usually upon topics in which the mass of 
mankind take an interest they are likely to be, and indeed are, nmch read. 
Eor our part, be they right or wrong, we like them to be read ; for out of the 
numbers of this class which have been written, there are many, veiy many, of 
good quality, whilst of the inferior productions, surely there are but few in- 
deed which do not contain some appreciable amount of geological knowledge ; 
some germs of truth which by these means dispersed, may providentially some- 
where take root in favourable soU. Hardly have geologists agreed as to the 
possible existence of men amongst the mammoths, than the subject is regarded 
in its theological bearing, and a volume, by no means unpretentious, is placed 
on our table. The author of " Pre-adamite Man" writes incog. ; and although 
personally we do not go the length of his views in respect to a double creation 
of man — the extinction of a pre-adamite race, and the adding an eighth day to 
the seven commonly accepted days of creation, we are not by any means dis- 
posed to speak luifavourably of his book. 
Undoubtedly he falls into souie errors in respect to certain former geological 
phases and changes in the physical condition of our planet ; but many of these 
are popular errors which have been too long favoured even by geologists them- 
selves. Amongst such is one especially requiring contradiction, or at any rate 
considerable modification and restriction, namely, that granite always forms the 
basis of the stratified crust of the earth ; that it is an io-neous rock ; that it 
was originally the first-formed crust, or peUicle of a globe of molten matter. 
We have already more than once in this magazine, as well as elsewhere, drawn 
attention to these fallacies. Tirst, then, granite is at most ouly an eruptive, 
not an erupted, rock in the sense only that it has sometimes burst, or been 
forced tlu-ough the consolidated stratified rocks reposing upon it. In all cases 
granite lias been formed under the dense pressure of a superincumbent mass, 
aud never at the open atmosphere of air or of earth-enveloping vapours, as 
