CHAPTER V 



IN SCIENCE 



' In league with the stones of the field.' JOB v. 23. 



THE geologist writes in sand literally and historically, 

 and in the science of the Testimony of the Rocks super- 

 session is the law. ' Such,' says Miller himself in the 

 preface to the first edition of the Old Red Sandstone, 

 * is the state of progression in geological science that 

 the geologist who stands still but for a very little must 

 be content to find himself left behind.' The advancing 

 tide of knowledge leaves the names of the early pioneers 

 little more than a list of extinct volcanoes. Hooke and 

 Burnet, Ray and Woodward, Moro and Michel, are to 

 the ordinary mass of readers about as obsolete as the 

 saurian and the mastodon. Only the very few can live 

 in a tide so strong, which bears away not only the older 

 landmarks but even such names as Werner and Hutton, 

 Hall and Fleming. 



From about 1830 to 1850 the old metaphysical reign 

 seems to have ceased j and Jeffrey, in the palmy days of 

 the Edinburgh Review, could declare that the interest 

 in psychology had well-nigh passed away with Dugald 



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