An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation"

First published in 1846. The "Advertisement" explains: "Few works of a scientific import have been published that so promptly and deeply fixed public attention as the _Vestiges of Creation_, or elicited more numerous replies and sharper critical analysis and disquisition. Upon so vast a question as the evolution of universal creation differences of opinion were natural and unavoidable. Many have disputed the accuracy of some of the author's facts, and the sequence and validity of his inductive inferences; but few can withhold from him the praise of a patient and intrepid spirit of inquiry, much occasional eloquence, and very considerable powers of analysis, systematic induction, arrangement and combination."