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title: 'Jonathan Edwards as a Naturalist'
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authors:
- 'Henry Christopher McCook'
date: 1890-07-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Autobiography and Biography'
- 'Science'
- 'Natural Theology'
scriptures:
- 'Psalms 19'
- 'Romans 1'
- 'Genesis 1'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/mccook-1890-jonathan-edwards-as-a-naturalist
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# Jonathan Edwards as a Naturalist

Survey of late-19th-century debate between materialism and idealism, followed by a profile of Jonathan Edwards as an early American naturalist, emphasizing his accurate observations of spiders and web-spinning.

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