text:  The unknown author before us repeatedly protests against being numbered amongst atheistic philosophers; on our own part we are thoroughly convinced that no formula of physical science could possibly interfere with a rational belief in the power and wisdom of God; what remains then but to treat his book purely in a scientific point of view? To reduce to a system the acts of creation or the development of the several forms of animal life no more impeaches the authorship of creation than to trace the laws by which the world is upheld and its phenomena perpetually renewed