THE PROBLEM OF HUMAN LIFE: EMBRACING THE "EVOLUTION OF SOUND" AND "EVOLUTION EVOLVED," WITH A REVIEW OF THE SIX GREAT MODERN SCIENTISTS, DARWIN, HUXLEY, TYNDALL, HAECKEL, HELMHOLTZ, AND MAYER. by A. WILFORD HALL - 1880

Hall and Company, 1880. Hardcover. Good. .

Hall and Company, 1880. Hardcover. Good. . General age/reading wear. Pages tanned but clean. Boards clean.

Hall & Company, 1880. Hardcover. Used - Good. NY: Hall & Company, 1880. 524 pages, 4pp Opinions of Press. Frontispiece portraits. 9.5x6", gold & black stamped brown cloth. 'I have made it my object to conduct the discussion & condense the arguments against the theory of man's descent by transmutation from lower animals in such a manner that the superficial reader shall have the weapons at hand to meet with irresistible effect the acknowledged champions of the system, & put a check to its progress.' Cover rubbed, soiled, text bit toned, VG.

New York: Hall and Company Book. Good. Hardcover. 1883, viii, [13]-524pp, frontispiece portrait of the six scientists. There are a few waterstains on the covers, inner hinge neatly reinforced, extremities worn, contents VG. Although it is difficult to get a handle on this book without reading it thoroughly, it appears to be an early entry in the Creation vs. Evolution argument. The author states that the human soul is an organism possessed of eyes, ears, and brain, and thus, since matter cannot be annihilated, the human soul must continue to exist in some dimension after bodily death. By refuting the theories of some of the scientists, he builds a platform on which to base his own theories. A curious mix of philosophy and science..

New York: Hall and Company, 1883. Hardcover. Acceptable. . Cover shows heavy wear and rubbing, paper taped over the cover with tape affixed to the endpaper. Pages are shaken, library stamps, chipped edges, pages show minor spotting.

New York: Hall and Company, 1883. Hardcover. VG+. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. See photos for condition details. Hardcover brown cloth boards with black design on front, black and gilt on spine. Exterior shows minor spotting and soiling corners and edges show minor bumps. The internal binding is good and text pages are tight. No hinge issues, no bookplates, no library markings. The front end page has a small chip at the bottom and the second end page has a name and a 1885 date written in pencil, no other handwriting found in the book. Pages are toned due to age and there is some very light foxing/spotting present. Title page states forty-seventh thousand.

New York: Hall and Company, 1880. 522+pp. Original brown cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Lightly soiled and rubbed. Corners bumped. Light foxing to edges of text block and scattered throughout. Previous owner's name on title pg. Contents nice.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Hall and Company, 1880. Revised Edition. Octavo (24cm). Brown cloth, stamped in black on front, titled in gilt on spine; yellow endpapers; [ii],viii, [2], 13-524, [4]pp; 4pp of ads at rear; frontispiece. A straight, bright copy, lightly rubbed, internally toned at page edges: Very Good. An anti-scientific attempt to prove that humans have eternal souls by disproving the existence of sound waves and debunking evolution.

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