Sir William Dawson, at one time the distinguished Principal of MacGill University, Montreal, found time amidst his renowned scientific researches to write quite a number of books in defence of Scripture which more sceptical and less scientific men might read to their advantage. In an interview he was asked on one occasion—“As a scientific man have you any difficulty in accepting the miracles of both the Old and New Testaments?” “None whatever,” was the unhesitating reply. “The two must stand or fall together. I do not think a man can logically reject the Old Testament without also rejecting the New. The evidence of inspiration in the Old Testament, considered as the preparatory dispensation for Christ’s coming, is just as good, in my judgment, as in that of the New. It is something like our geological periods; we do not think it necessary to reject the silurian period because we believe in the carboniferous that came after it. On the contrary, we know that the one was preparatory to the other.”