In polemics oy criticism nothing can be more
untair thaa to raise the hue and cry of materialism.
It implies, not seldom, a lack of sounder argument
in those having recourse to it, and the review under
notice is a notable instance of. the truth of the re-
mark; for if we ever read a work, with the slightest
pretension to philosophy, that was less obnoxious to
such a charge, it is this. Tf ever philosophical
speculation tended to elevate our ideas of the great
Creator of all things, it is this which our author has
had the rare merit of opening more fully to view—a
philosophy that has for its primal object, to show us
not only the universality of His outward and visible
power, but that it exists in essence, undiminished
through myriads, or an infinitude of years, in every
form of matter we are acquainted with, and not only
on our own earth, but by well grounded analogy,
alike in all those globes and systems, that lie scat-
tered through boundless space.