Dr. Hume's attack, we should say, that the author is not likely to sink under it. Perhaps motives of humanity have kept him from being too severe; but the others have been actoated by a very different spirit, and yet, at first sight, we thought this not a 'little strange; as from what we supposed was a tolerable acquaintance with their previously published opinions onmatters of cosmological geology, we were led to believe that the views of the author of the 'Vestiges" would be received, if not with favour, at least without violent hostility. But-geological philosophers, in this respect, are like others, nor will they suffer a mere anony.mous interloper to " give himself the airs of a legislator over the material world."  In proof' of this, we have only room to refer to the treatment our author's starting point has met with; that indeed, on which he has superimposed the whole of his structore-that agglom ration of globes, known by the name of * fhe Nebular Theory."