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auxiliary evidence for the " Nebular hypothesis," while, on 

 the contrary, opposing facts are numerous. In Geology, 

 too, it was contended that recent investigations had com- 

 pletely overturned the views which the author of the 

 " Vestiges" propounded ; and therefore, that while his work 

 was interesting in many respects as a hook, it was utterly 

 unworthy of any place among treatises on scientific sub- 

 jects. 



