The bible of nature, and substance of virtue
Subtitle: condensed from the scriptures of eminent cosmians, pantheists and physiphilanthropists, of various ages and climes
Contributors: Ames, Julius Rubens, 1801-1850, comp; Darwin, Erasmus, 1731-1802; Van Benthuysen, C. (Charles), 1817-1881, printer; Jarvis, John Wesley 1780-1840, ill; Hall, John H., engraver; Inman, Henry, 1801-1846, engraver; Ritter, Louis, former owner
Publisher: Stereotyped and printed by C. Van Benthuysen., sold by G. Vale, editor of the Beacon, no. 84 Rosevelt-Street, New-York, George H. Evans, editor of the Radical, Granville, Middletown, New-Jersey; H. Seaver and J.P. Mendum, of the Investigator, no. 35 Washington-St. Boston, and John Wilbank, 262 Market-st. Philadelphia
Published: 1842
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 479
Subjects: Philosophy; Natural theology
Other titles: Opus maximum.; The temple of nature, or the origin of society.; The philosophy of nature.
Notes: A compilation printing comprising several works that were previously printed and issued separately, each with its own title page; a collective table of contents lists compiled authors, but not titles of the subsumed works.

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Table of contents: title: The bible of nature, and substance of virtue : condensed from the scriptures of eminent cosmians, pantheists and physiphilanthropists, of various ages and climes -- (Albany : 1842); title: The bible of nature : comprising the moral state of nations, the revelation of nature, and the substance of the essay on materialism, and extracts from the lectures and discourses, and from a translation of the Philosophy of nature  -- by John Stewart, the pedestrian philosopher and apostle of nature -- (Albany : 1842); title: Opus maximum : an essay on materialism, to reduce the moral world from contingency to system; to which is appended the Philosophy of nature  -- by John Stewart, the pedestrian philosopher -- (New York : 1841); title: The temple of nature, or the origin of society : a philosophical poem with notes -- by Erasmus Darwin ... with extracts from his botanic garden, zoonomia, and phytologia-- (New York : 1842)