Works
His academic years were prolific in literature of various kinds, and his writings fill more than 30 volumes. He was highly regarded during his lifetime as a natural theologian. A series of sermons on the relation between the discoveries of astronomy and the Christian revelation was published in January 1817, and within a year nine editions and 20,000 copies were in circulation.
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