article adds, that "he has not, like some theologians, neglected, avoided, or slurred over the facts. He has met them in their full force. * * He has rendered a signal service to science and religion, by meeting this subject in the fullness and richness of its evidence, in the splendor and deep researches of its discoveries. With admirable candor and perfect comprehension of his materials, he has disposed of them with masterly skill. This work, if we mistake not, will do more than any other has done to disabuse the religious world of their unreasonable fears of geology—to place it side by side with astronomy—the only physical science which excels it in grandeur; and to prove that only dark and limited views can make us fear the developemnt of truth in every department of the works of the infinite Creator." Such is the high character which this work receives from one well qualified to judge of its merits. I shall therefore present the views of Dr. S. upon this subject with peculiar satisfaction, believing them to be the views which are now generally entertained by all intelligent geologists. The discussion of this subject begins on about the eightieth page of the book referred to, and extends over some forty or fifty pages. After giving "some account of the mistaken views which have been extensively entertained, concerning the effects of the deluge, as supposed to have left their impressions upon the surface of our globe," the writer adds, that "the lapse of not more than ten years has brought a vast collection of observations to bear upon this interesting subject: and I conceive it may, with the strictest truth, be said that the annals of science, of literature, or of theology, do not present a nobler instance of fairness and mental integrity, than was shown by the most perfect geologists that our country, or any other, can boast, in yielding up a favorite and long cherished opinion, to which they had committed themselves in the most public manner, and for which they had been hailed with flattering applause; knowing also, by a very sure anticipation, that the concession to the
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