after all this, our philosophers yet condescended to
usé sly slices of it, dexterously detached, even from
thé setting df Nichol, whenever they found them-
selves in a cusmoganal “fix.” But now that the
author of the “ Vestiges,” in his turn, has taken it, cut
and dry, from Nichol, and while he has been laudably
endeavouring to make it work out its seeming des-
tiny in ‘his own ‘pages, it is discovered to be mere
paste after all, or, in. the language of our reviewer,
(p..2i,) “it is a splendid vision, and may vanish in
mid air.”. . But as if something joth to part with it,
he adds, in the same sentence tuo, by way of atford-
ing cdnsolation to ages yet unborn, “that in five
hundred years: (as 2 day to 2 geologist) it may pass
into a good substantial theory.” ‘Geological lan-
‘uage. furnishes us with’ the analogy, and we
inant suggest that henceforth, it might not unfitly
be calied, THE TRANSITION THEORY.
We have already exceeded our limite, but lest our