A LECTURE DELIVERED BEFORE THE TORQUAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, JAN. 31 ST , 1870, BY THOMAS R. R. STEBBING, M.A., Late Fellow and Tutor of Worcester College , Oxford . London MACMILLAN AND CO. 1870. OXFORD: BY T. COMBE, M.A., E. B. GARDNER, E. P. HALL, AND H. LATHAM, M.A., PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY....

Darwinism implies almost throughout that no universal Deluge has drowned our globe, either within the last ten thousand years, or even within a period indefinitely longer.  Let us speak with due respect of the contrary belief.  It seems to rest upon the testimony of a Volume the most precious in the world.  It was taken for granted till a few years back as much in science as in religion.  For a while, the arguments that began to be raised against it were met by counter-arguments so plausible, an