The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in its Bearings on the Two Theologies,
Natural and Revealed by Hugh Miller, St Matthew Publishing, Cambridge,
£8.99, ISBN 190154611X
AN EARLY dropout from a formal education, Hugh Miller first became a
journeyman stonemason, which triggered his life-long love of geology. He went on
to become an effective essayist, pamphleteer, journalist and busy independent
editor who found solace in the geology in the region around Cromarty in
Scotland.
The success of his early book The Old Red Sandstone popularised
science in the mid-19th century. Recent commentators reckon he was a David
Attenborough and…
