Text: C. F. Briggs (?), Literary, Broadway Journal (New York), February 1, 1845, vol. 1, no. 5, p. ??

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CHEMISTRY, as exemplifying the Wisdom and Beneficence of God. By Geo. Fownes, Ph. D., F. R.S., etc. in 1 vol. small 8vo. Price 50 cents. Wiley and Putnam.

Works of this class are valuable only for whatever positive information they may contain. If such a project for impressing men with an idea of God's power were carried out, as that proposed in the Bridgewater treatises, and other works of a similar kind, every object in creation from an ant to an elephant, and every member of every animal. I would require a separate volume, before the plan could be complete. But we trust that the perception of mankind is not yet so completely blunted, as to require this kind of pointing to the wisdom of God, as displayed in his works.