Moses And Geology or the Harmony of the Bible with Science -- Samuel Kinns (Inscribed by author)

Cassel  & Company, 1892.

Condition: Fair amount of age related wear and marking (see images). The binding is sound but the text block is starting to separate from the cover boards.

The volume is inscribed by the author " Presented to - The Right Reverend - The Lord Bishop of Marlborough - By the Author - Samuel Kinns - 22 June 1894"

KINNS, SAMUEL (18261903), writer on the Bible, born in 1826, was educated at Colchester grammar school and privately. He received the degree of Ph.D. from the University of Jena in 1859. For twenty-five years he was principal and proprietor of a prosperous private school. The College, Highbury New Park. Ordained deacon in 1885 and priest in 1889, he held a curacy at All Souls, Langham Place (18859), and was rector of Holy Trinity, Minories, from 29 March 1889 until the closing of the church on 1 Jan. 1899, under the Union of Benefices Act. In 'Moses and Geology,' which he published in 1882 (14th edit 1895), he endeavoured to show that the account of the creation in the first chapter of Genesis harmonises with the latest scientific discoveries. 

500pp + index. Size: 22.3cm x 15cm. 

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