The Genesis of the Angels, and the Story of their
Early Home. (Edin- burgh: W. P. Nimmo.)—One of the objects of this book is to vindicate the Pentateuch from the charge of scientific inaccuracy. Another is to show us that we must not follow it too closely. The theory to which the title-page alludes is that the creation of man, narrated in the first chapter of Genesis, is the creation of the Pre-Adamite races, and that these were the angels. This theory, however, occupies but little space in the book. The greater part is taken up with a geological sketch of the early history of the world, and an attempt to reconcile that with the account in Genesis. If the writer never got beyond the argument that because our Lord in arguing with the Jews appealed to the books of Moses, therefore we have it on divine authority that the Pentateuch was actually written by Moses, we should have attached little importance to his work. But in other respects he shows that he can appreciate facts which have been ignored by some of his predecessors, and in his sketch of geological history he looks at science rather than at the letter of the Bible.
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