Samuel Ferguson
Author
Publisher
Moorhead, Simpson & Bond
Pub. Date
1868.
Language
English
Description
Excerpt: "There are several questions which at this present time remain unsettled. One of them is, "who invented gunpowder?" Another is, which of them was it, Faust or Guttemberg, "that invented printing?" Another is, "whether the Deity created nature, or nature created itself?" That is a poser. Another is "whether the original egg was the parent of the chicken, or the egg was the original ancestor of that celebrated feathered fowl?" "De novum ovum,"...