Hugh Miller

Hugh Miller was one of the most remarkable intellectuals in Victorian Scotland. The son of a Cromarty fisherman who was lost at sea when Hugh was only five years old, Miller was apprenticed at the age of sixteen to a local stonemason. In 1840 he launched his journalistic career with the pro-Evangelical newspaper The Witness. A champion of the new Free Church, Miller simultaneously pursued his research in geology and palaeontology and made important contributions to the debate on evolution, combating Darwinian theory in his Footprints of the Creator (1850) and The Testimony of the Rocks (1857). Miller died by his own hand in 1856. His wife Lydia wrote an extraordinary account of his life.休·米勒（Hugh Miller）是维多利亚时代苏格兰最杰出的知识分子之一。他的父亲是克罗马蒂（Cromarty）的一名渔民，在他年仅五岁时便葬身大海；休·米勒于16岁时签约成为当地一名石匠的学徒。1840年，他凭借亲福音派报纸《见证者》（The Witness）开启了新闻职业生涯。作为新自由教会的拥护者，米勒同时投身地质学与古生物学研究，并在进化论相关论战中作出重要贡献：他于1850年出版《造物主的足迹》（Footprints of the Creator）、1857年出版《岩石的见证》（The Testimony of the Rocks），在书中驳斥达尔文进化论。休·米勒于1856年自尽。其妻子莉迪亚（Lydia）为其生平写下了一段非同寻常的记述。