In 1885 and 1886 Gladstone defended the order of creation in Genesis as consistent with science, and Huxley replied in the pages of The Nineteenth Century. This essay, with its note on the proper sense of the Mosaic narrative, takes Gladstone’s arguments one by one, with side-trips into Heraclitus and evolution.
A celebrated round in the Victorian battle between science and scripture, sharp and witty. Download the free EPUB.