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structure, that, apart from the interest of the subject, 

 would often make the mere reading a wearisome 

 task. We only wish there were space at command 

 to exemplify Sir Charles Bell's immense superiority 

 in this respect. But all who are familiar with his 

 Essay, will remember how happily it illustrates the 

 higher culture that illuminates special knowledge, 

 connects science with history and philosophy, and 

 thus gives to its expositions a distinctively lite- 

 rary character, and a broadly human interest " 

 (p. 500, &c). 



APPENDIX V, PAGE 210. 



That Book of Books which has satisfied the giant 

 intellects of such men as Bacon, Milton, and Newton, 

 is not likely to be overthrown, or in the slightest 

 degree injured, by the puny efforts of such men as 

 Professor Lesley of America, the late Bishop Colenso 

 of Natal, or the writers of the Westminster Review, 

 the chief organ of infidelity in England of the 

 present day. When Bishop Colenso, misled by the 

 ignorant remark of a savage from Zululand, com- 

 menced his onslaught on the Bible, and declared 

 with astounding folly that Moses' story of the Exodus 

 had no more historical truth in it than the assertion 

 that two and two made five, nothing could ex- 

 ceed the contempt and scorn which cultured Jewish 

 writers manifested for his daring blunders, and 

 ludicrous attempts at Biblical criticism ; and though 

 it gave this unhappy Bishop a little notoriety at the 

 time, I do not think it has disturbed a single Christian 

 mind in the slightest degree. And how deeply the 



