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Analyses of Books. 
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S n 7 h i had , been sown by Democritus, and led the way to 
beginning fo “coven' 6 ” 15 ' ° f fr ° m Whkh « °V 
Were we, however, to notice every passage in this work which 
^, ay b ® consider ® d t0 deserve comment we should far exceed our 
allotted space ; but we are bound to say that Mr. Kirby has ore 
sented the evidences of Evolution in a clear and acceptable form 
showing that the New Natural History stands in nTnecessa^ 
connection with Atheism. Hence students of religious princn 
pies need not fear examining Nature from the point of view 
which Darwin and Wallace have made accessible. 
T ° al r l J\ e Inv } sibIe G ods : concerning two distinct Bibles beina 
vt^W r' Blbh • Part First - From and written 
Forrest ’ surnamed “John.” Comprising 
Specml Revelations, and in reference to “ Endymion ” (No 
publisher’s or printer’s name.) y * (iN ° 
We have here a work the greater part of which is devoted to 
Tp p 0 1 .? questions, but which is of a truly perplexing character 
Zr » r ells US in his Preface that to' him there has faflen a 
... &e ’ p nd ln 0U1 a S e an d life an unknown, position • that his 
hunS v™, ‘ he H ” ly rCal ReVe ’ a,i0n PUblished eighteen 
“S e r yeai u s * He comments on the “ awe, fear, and dread 
*rnrlQ ” be f n taUght concerning the character of the true 
gods and on the mystery of existence. He raises the old and 
painful question “ Why do not mankind find themselves "n 
circumstances to satisfy their most natural desires and dehghts ? 
What is, what was, the reason of restriction or ‘ hohness ? > ” 
, gaiR ’ he ass ^ rts that be has received real Revelations and adds 
defease/ Eari' r" ° f th | S f, mat l ers passes t0 him “ the 
oeceased E a r! of Beaconsfield, whose communications placed 
for my observation will be produced.” Knowing that the de- 
ceased Conservative statesman was “for the angels,” though too 
wise to commit himself to an indiscreet dabbling in Science - 
as h.s great rival has done anent the evolution of the colour 
sense,— we have searched for these communications, but have 
not been able to find them in this “ Part First.” 
Our author is prone to heresies, scientific as well as theolo- 
gical. On one and the same page he tells us that “ animals 
were not born of the Father or formed by him, but were bred 
from the earth by certain changes which occurred some 6000 
years ago or so. Here special creation and evolution are denied 
Jbe same breath, and a very recent origin is ascribed to the 
animal kingdom. 
