Had we not a higher idea of the honesty, of purpose of Professor sedgwick, we should be almost tempted to opine, that he has, on this occasion, made the author of the " Vestiges" a scape-goat, to ward off the charges of a tendency to infidelity and materialism, that have been so unfairly, but yet plentifully, heaped of late on his own favourite pursuit, Geology-a sort of peace-offering to the Dean of