14 GLAUCUS ; OR, 
who laboured on with a noble recklessness, deter- 
mined to speak the thing which they had seen, and 
neither more nor less, sure that. God could take 
better care than they of His own everlasting truth. 
And now they have conquered: the facts which 
were twenty years ago denounced as contrary to 
Revelation, are at last accepted not merely as con- 
sonant with, but as corroborative thereof; and 
sound practical geologists—like Hugh Miller, in 
his “Footprints of the Creator,’ and Professor 
Sedgwick, in the invaluable notes to his “ Discourse 
on the Studies of Cambridge”—have wielded in 
defence of Christianity the very science which was 
faithlessly and cowardly expected to subvert it. 
But if you seek, reader, rather for pleasure than 
for wisdom, you can find it in such studies, pure 
and undefiled. 
Happy, truly, is the naturalist. He has no time 
for melancholy dreams. The earth becomes to him 
transparent ; everywhere he sees significancies, har- 
monies, laws, chains of cause and effect endlessly 
interlinked, which draw him out of the narrow 
