The Builders of Babel. By Dominick M'Causland, Q.C., LL.D. (Bentley.)—"
The Esquimaux of the Arctic regions are as dark in their complexions as the Negroes of the torrid or the Australians of the temperate zone" (p. 303). The Hellenes peopled Greece " ander the leadership of Hellen, the son of Deucalion" (p. 228). "The animal in- hales the air, and thereby separates the carbon from the oxygen, appro- priating the latter to its own support, and sending forth the carbon as pabulum for vegetation" (p. 250). "Philologists have eliminated and established the truth" (p. 154 Dr. M'Causland is a long-estab- lished practitioner in the art of reconciling Soripturo with Science by perverting both, and these specimens may give an idea of his qualifica- tions as a teacher. The public among whom his books find their sale must be the half-educated classes of the "religious world." Unquestion- ably, middle-class education is just now one of the weakest points in our social system, and its improvement should be declared urgent.
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