Harmonies of the Universe, as Displayed in the Laws of Nature, the Dominion of Providence, and the Dispensations of Grace.

Herbert W. Morris.

Harmonies of the Universe, as Displayed in the Laws of Nature, the Dominion of Providence, and the Dispensations of Grace.

Philadelphia:

P. W. Ziegler & Co.,

1878.

Gift of Todd Pattison.

This critique of Darwin offers a defense of Creationist theory. Bound in an imposing publisher’s bookbinding, the book’s thick, three-dimensional covers and heft are reminiscent of copies of the Bible published in the 1870s. The decoration on its covers is also characteristic of the decade, when beveled boards were popular and when gold leaf and reflective black stamping were first used together. The book’s former owner inscribed the flyleaf with a quote from scripture, likely intended as a warning to those to whom she loaned it: “‘The wicked borroweth and returneth not’ | Proverbs.”

From the collection of Rare Book School