+ We had thought, in the simplicity of our heart,
that if the book contained one comparisun more
justly conceived than another, and felicitously illus-
trative of the rationale of its author's el apres it
was that, where the analogy is instituted—for illus-
tration merely—between the cyclical changes that
our globe, in all probability, has undergone, with
those numerical changes, that arise after the lapse of
millions of revolutions of Babbagess calculating ma-
chine, these being so many laws of its construction.
Or, to venture on a humbler one of our own, as the
American aloe has been embued,- ab initio, with the
power to give out flowers only once in seventy years,
he who might run his race within view of it, although
of extra length, might be found stoutly denying that
such a phenomenon would ever take place. Most per-
sons. with whom we have exchanged opinions on the
merits ot the book have admitted, -however much
they have quarrelled with the rest, that this, at least,
was a happy conception. But hear how the doctors
differ! -Ouy reviewer devotes nearly a couple of