Relation between the Holy Scripture and Some Parts of Geological Science

Relation between the Holy Scripture and Some Parts of Geological Science

Smith, John Pye

London: Bohn, 1854

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1854

Goerge Eliot to Martha Jackson, September 1841. "Thank you, dear Ivy, for inquiring about me: That touching monosyllable -- which by the bye a process of logic like the Eton youth's might demonstrate a Polly's syllable. . . . In these school days of ours even our holidays must only be times of preparation for return to duty -- enjoyment beyond that obtained in active service must be reserved for the period of our establishment at home. But am I not implying a false estimate of that home? I firmly believe that activity in obedience, even attended with a degree of arduousness in the exercise of virtue will be among the circumstancials of future bliss. Rest there will be -- but it will be rest from the assaults and tyrannizing efforts of inherent sin, not the rest of indolence; and the idea is a powerful incentive to the forming rigorously holy habits of feeling and action. Do you know Nichol's works on astronomy? if not you would find them a rich treat. I have just read Dr. P. Smith's work on the connexion between Scripture and Geology; there is very much that is valuable in it, and the main subject of the work, the interpretation of the Mosaic records, is fully satisfactory to me: but the author is much too encyclopaedic in his matter; he touches on too great a variety of topics. . . ." GEL 1: 109-10

Smith, John Pye, Relation between the Holy Scripture and Some Parts of Geological Science, George Eliot's Reading, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/57447

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