Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), 16th March 1885, Edition 1 of 1, Page 267

Now ready , in One Volume , crown 8 vo . pp . 530 , Illustrated , cloth extra , 1 Z $ . 6 < £ , PARADISE FOUND : THE CRADLE OF THE HUMAN RACE AT THE NORTH POLE . A STUDY OF THE PREHISTORIC WORLD . BY WILLIAM F . WARREN , S . T . D ., LL . D . President of Boston University , & c . WITH ODEblG-HtsT-A-IE-. ILLXJSTK / ATIO 1 TS . EXTRACT FROM PREFACE . * This book is not the work of a dreamer ; neither has it proceeded from a love of learned paradox ; nor yet is it a cunningly demised fable , aimed at particular tendencies in current science , philosophy , or religion . It is a thoroughly serious and sincere attempt to present what is , to the author ' s mind , the true and final solution of one of the greatest and most fascinating of all problems connected with the history of mankind The suggestion that primitive Eden was atthe Arctic Pole seems , at first sight , the most incredible of wild and wilful paradoxes , and it is only within the lifetime of our own generation that the progress of geological discovery has relieved the hypothesis of fatal antecedent improbability Even five years ago some of the most interesting and cogent of our arguments would as yet have been lacking / * To the believer in Revelation , or even in the most ancient and venerable ethnic traditions , the volume here presented will be found to possess uncommon interest So long and so successfully have the representatives of a narrow naturalism dogmatised on the constancy of Nature ' s laws and the uniformity of Nature ' s forces , that of late it has required no small degree of courage to enable an intelligent man to stand up in the face of his generation and avow his personal faith in the early existence of men of a gigantic stature and of almost millenarial longevity . Especially have clergymen , and Christian teachers and writers upon Biblical History been embarrassed by the popular incredulity on these subjects , and not infrequently by a consciousness that this incredulity was in some measure shared by themselves . To all such , and indeed to all the broader-minded among the naturalists themselves , a new philosophy of primaeval history—a philosophy which for all the alleged extraordinary effects provides the adequate extraordinary causes—cannot fail to prove most welcome / .... London : SAMPSON LOW , MARStON , SEARLE , & RIVINGTON , Crown Buildings , 188 Fleet Street , E . C . Il '/ Livr . ' ,. .: * ., ' ., . ¦ f * " , ' ¦ .

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