_ Elad we not a higher 1aea of the honesty, of pur-
pose of Professor sedgwick, we should be almost
tempted to opine, that he has, on this occasion, made
the author of the “ Vestiges” a seape-goat, to ward
off the charges of a tendency to infidelity and ma-
terialidm, that have been so unfairly, but yet plenti-
fully, heaped of late on his own favourite: ursuft,
eologyj—_a sort of peace-pffering to the Dean of