The Religious Tract Society was an evangelical Christian publishing house that focused on producing literature explaining the world in the context of the teachings of the Bible. Like the larger Society for Promoting Christian knowledge, they published cheap books aimed at a wide audience.

This book by Richard Kerr looks at the intricate patterns found throughout the natural world, observed ‘with the aid of the microscope, the geologist’s hammer and the eye of an obscure artist’ and argues that such beauty could not be achieved without the influence of a Divine creator.