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historical sketch 52 ,' and 'I was afraid to point the 

 moral. . .about Moses. Perhaps I should have been 

 tenderer about the Koran 53 .' He further says 'full 

 half of my history and comments was cut out, and 

 even many facts, because either I, or Stokes, or 

 Broderip, felt that it was anticipating twenty or 

 thirty years of the march of honest feeling to declare 

 it undisguisedly 54 .' 



Under these circumstances the publication by 

 Scrope of his two long notices of the Principles 

 in the Review which was regarded as the champion 

 of orthodoxy, was most opportune. A very clear 

 sketch was given in these reviews of the leading 

 facts and the general line of argument ; and at the 

 same time the allowing of prejudice or prepossession 

 to influence the judgment on such questions was very 

 gently deprecated 55 . 



But Scrope's reviews did not by any means 

 consist of an indiscriminate advocacy of Lyell's 

 views. In one respect that of the great importance 

 of subaerial action as contrasted with marine action 

 Scrope's views were at this time in advance of 

 those of Lyell, and he called especial attention to the 

 direct effects produced by rain in the earth-pillars 

 of Botzen. These Lyell had not at the time seen, 

 but took an early opportunity of visiting, Scrope, 

 too, was naturally much more speculative in his modes 

 of thought than Lyell, and argued for the probably 



