" In the present treatise, it is a matter of the warmest satisfaction to find 

 nn anatomist of Sir Charles Bell's great eminence, professing his contempt 

 for the late fashionable doctrines of Materialism held by so many anato- 

 mists, and now coming forward to present the fruits of his wide researches 

 and great ability, in a treatise so full of curious and interesting matter, 

 expressly intended to prove, by the examination of one particular point, 

 that design which is impressed on all parts of the various animals which 

 in some degree answer the purposes of the hand, and has shown that the 

 hand is not the source of contrivance, nor consequently of man's superi- 

 ority, as some materialists have maintained. To this he has added some 

 very valuable remarks, showing the uses of pain, and he has illustrated 

 this work with a variety of the most admit able and interesting wood 

 cuts." — British Magazine.. 



" The manner in which he has executed his task is able and satisfactory. 

 With great and extensive experimental knowledge, and a complete ac- 

 quaintance with his subject, as well as just and elevated views of the great- 

 ness and divine nature of the Creator, he has brought one of the most 

 powerful chains of reasoning to the support of Revelation which philoso- 

 phy has yet added to that holy cause.'' — JV. Y. Commercial. 



" Let works like that before us be widely disseminated, and the bold, ac- 

 tive, and ingenious enemies of religion be met by those, equally sagacious, 

 alert and resolute, and the most timid of the many who depend upon the 

 few, need not fear the host that comes with subtle steps to ' steal their faith 

 away.'" — N. Y. American. 



"That the devoted spirit of the work is most exemplary, that we have 

 here and there found, or fancied, room for cavil, only peradventure be- 

 cause we have been unable to follow the author through the prodigious 

 range of his philosophical survey — and in a word, that the work before us 

 would have made the reputation of any other man, and may well maintain 

 even that of Ptofessor Whewell." — Metropolitan. 



"We have read this work (Buckland's Geology, &c.) with a degree of 

 satisfaction and admiration which has increased at every step. 



" It is a full digest of the most important facts in geology, happily com- 

 bined, with great condensation and perspicuity, and by the most liberal use 

 of plates beautifully executed, it speaks intelligibly to the eyes, even of 

 those who are not familiar with the language of natural history, and thus 

 it displays the astonishing structure of the world. 



" The great moral demonstration which is its main object, is fully sus- 

 tained, and we think that no man can rise from the intelligent perusal of it, 

 without a full conviction that a creating and governing mind, infinite in 

 power, knowledge, wisdom and benevolence, has gradually arranged the 

 materials of this planet, and caused to be interred in its strata and mineral 

 masses, documents of its history, and of that of innumerable races of ani- 

 mals and plants, from the most miscroscopic to the most collosal, which 

 lived and died ere man appeared — documents surpassing in number and in 

 credibility every thing of actual history, except the inspired record itself. 



" With this record we believe these facts to be entirely consistent, and 

 we are fully assured that ignorance of them is the sole cause of the incre- 

 dulity aud displeasure which are manifested by some as to the motal bear- 

 ing of geology. 



" We cannot now enter upon this argument, and can only say, in con- 

 clusion, that Dr. Buckland has, by the present work, laid both science and 

 religion under great obligations, — while he will delight all his readers by 

 the vigour, beauty and eloquence which gives his work as high a rank in 

 literature as it claims in science." — Silliman's Journal. 



