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 actuated 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 pub-
lished 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 philo-
sophers, 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 structure—that agglom ration of globes, known
by the name of * fhe Nebular Theory.”