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The Primitive Origination of Mankind 1677

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Title: The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature
Author: Hale, Mathew
Description: [x], 380 pp. Engraved portrait frontispiece. (4to) 12½x7¾, period full calf with later rebacking. First Edition.One of the earliest works relating to evolution. "In this very curious treatise Hale in the first place attempts to show that the world must have had a beginning; next, with lawyer-like caution, that if by possibility this were not so, the human race at any rate cannot have existed from eternity; then passes in review certain 'opinions of the more learned part of mankind, philosophers and other writers, touching man's origination,' and finally defends the Mosaic account of the matter as most consonant with reason." With Estcourt Library bookplate. (DNB). Wing H258; Garrison-Morton 215; Norman 965.
Heading: zzkPlace Published: London
Publisher: Printed by William Godbid for William Shrowsbery
Date Published: 1677

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