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Having thus submitted Mr. Mozley's views to the ex- 

 amination which they challenged at the hands of a student 

 of the order of Nature, I am unwilling to quit his book 

 without expressing my high admiration and respect for his 

 ability. His failure, as I consider it to be, must, I think, 

 await all attempts, however able, to deal with the material 

 universe by logic and imagination, unaided by experiment 

 and observation. With regard to the style of the book, I 

 willingly subscribe to the description with which the Times 

 winds up its able and appreciative review. " It is marked 

 throughout with the most serious and earnest conviction, 

 but is without a single word from first to last of asperity or 

 insinuation against opponents, and this not from any de- 

 ficiency of feeling as to the importance of the issue, but 

 from a deliberate and resolutely maintained self-control, 

 and from an overruling, ever-present sense of the duty, on 

 themes like these, of a more than judicial calmness." l 



[ To the argument regarding the quantity of the mirac- 

 ulous, introduced at page 52, Mr. Mozley has done me the 

 honor of publishing a reply in the seventh volume of the 

 Contemporary Jteview. J. T., 1871.] 



1 See Appendix at the end of the book. 



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