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because it is the fruit of an exhaustive study, not of one but of all the 
sources of information which can be supposed to throw light upon the 
question, from the text and history of the Hebrew scriptures to the latest 
results of ethnological investigation.” —New York Hvening Post. 
This book gives us the amplification, and we believe the unanswerable 
defense of views which, upon their promulgation of two years ago, cost 
professor Winchell his lectureship at Vanderbilt University. * * * This 
great scholarly work shows its author alive in every fiber. * * * The 
book is splendidly written, many passages of great beauty might be 
selected from it. It shows its author to be a man of mental power, 
great information and extraordinary culture.-—New Hngland Journal of 
Education. 
There is hardly a subject relating to human progress and religion that 
is not connected in some way with the contents of this extraordinary 
production, and the writer shows that he is thoroughly equipped for the 
task which he has so brilliantly accomplished. Prof. Winchell has a 
highly cultivated literary gift, and the style of his composition is clear, 
easy, graphic and vigorous. But while the book is popularly written its 
spirit and method are strictly scientific. The candor, logical acuteness 
and learning of the author will favorably impress the most prejudiced. 
We regard the treatise as a remarkable and powerful contribution to the 
reconciliation of the Bible and modern science. No doubt some will 
draw inferences as to professor Winchell’s teachings that are alien to his 
belief; but if they do it will not be because his disavowal of certain 
doctrines is not sufficiently explicit—H. N. Powers, im the Literary 
World, June 5, 1880. 
* *& = Dr. Winchell’s book has a double interest which should not be 
overlooked. Though making no claims of this nature it is yet a valuable 
exposition of ethnological science, treating instructively a wide range of 
questions in relation to the origin, distribution, characteristics and 
natural history of the human races. * * * But while useful as a mere 
didactic discussion of anthropological questions, the work has an interest 
of another kind in relation to the special object for which it was written. 
It is an able contribution to a serious modern controversy. * * * It is 
not too much to say that it settles the controversy: and all christian teach- 
ers who have any genuine interest in the adjustment of their beliefs so 
that they shall harmonize with scientific demonstrations, owe gratitude 
to the author of this work for the untiring labor that he has bestowed 
upon the inquiry, and the intrepid spirit in which he has pursued it. 
Popular Science Monthly, July, 1880. 
Alexander Winchell, already a recognized authority in several branches 
of scientific knowledge, in a volume recently issued with the above title, 
sings the Z//as humana. If it were clothed in rhetoric it would deserve 
to rank as the epic of epics. * * * It has the thrilling interest of a 
romance.—Vhe Bulletin, San Francisco, 22d May, 1880. 
Similar tributes were paid to the work by the Montreal Giuzeéte, 
the Boston Traveller, the Rochester Morning Herald, Triitbner’s 
