ment in the closet. ‘These were our impressions
after reading the work, and such being our general
opinion, we shall hardly, we trust, be suspected of
undue partiality to the ‘author, or his book. But
with all this—and quite apart from the elegant and
flowing language in which it is written—there is
much of merit pervading it, Through the work runs
a vein of what we cannot forbear to think is fair sub-
ject for philosophic speculation; but, unfortunately,
the character of some of the witnesses the author has
cited into court, to prove his case, will not bear the
closest examination; nor is it the clumsy abuse of
the Edinburgh Review, nor the cuckoo note of'material-
ism which it sounds against the work, that will at all
alter the opinion of the reading and thinking public
with respect to, at least, this part of its merit.