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object is that so many geologists are contented to 

 regard the general principles of natural philosophy, 

 and their application to terrestrial physics, as 

 matters quite foreign to their ordinary pursuits. 

 I must also say, that though a clever counsel may, 

 by force of mother-wit and common sense, aided 

 by his very peculiar intellectual training, readily 

 carry a jury with him to either side, when a 

 scientific question is before the court, or may 

 even succeed in perplexing the mind of a 

 judge ; I do not think that the high court of 

 educated scientific opinion will ever be satisfied 

 by pleadings conducted on such precedents. But 

 jury and judge may be somewhat perplexed as to 

 what it is on which they are asked to give verdict 

 and sentence, when they learn that Professor 

 Huxley himself makes the gravest of the accusa- 

 tions against Hutton and Uniformity which he 

 repels as made by me. In the course of his 

 address he describes Kant's Cosmogony ; and 

 pointing out anticipations in it of some of the 

 "great principles" taught in the Theory of the 

 Earth, somewhat later, by Hutton, he says, " On 



