pea ave long sat, slumbered, and dreamed under the arbor Diana. 
The Edinburgh Reviewer exhorted our Author to quit his seat; and 
told him that if he remained there, he might be “—o- on the heady 
and have his cerebral organs shamefully put out of tune, and made to 
pa ae against all rules of harmony. The podem tomet Chath is very 
* thischievous. No divinity of the sky so fickle, and of so many faces 
—and her motions are so. wandering and ipconniale that they have 
- puzzled and confounded the wisest heads sinee the days of Newton. 
But under the arbor Diane our Author still is sitting; and there %t 
was that he evolved, in solitude, some of the queerest visions of his 
sary philosophy. We may take a passing view of one or two 
f th 
vt After Man » the Order of. Primates _ in Monke eys, Lemurs, 
> with man, and its he! ping him in shipwreck—although it is 
ult to —_— these — to be altogether without some _ af 
act. »” He must have bee n napping under Diana’s tree, thus 
short his oe Why did he not ae us of a man who, while fa Sia 
was king of Corinth, came over from Sicily riding cheerily upon a 
Dolphin’s back ? There i is ae. historical evidence re this fable than 
ut 
tHe may | not be be held a very fanciful ale ai who would regard 
the Megatherium as eager to climb the tree which he could only shake, 
and thus producing a progeny fitted to ie that which was the object 
Of his wishes ;—or the Rock-nose Whale, which loves to rest its 
head on rocks beside the beach, as wishful ef that mode of life which 
at . 
tin 
to. “press on to gr and bien ote te indefinite nT ss 
ness, which aay work as seconds in the individual, or strike hours | 
“3 ye Species,” “ape: . 346,) But why does our author thus ven-* 
steal t e mantle of Lamarck and the elder transformation- 
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for some others, quite as strange, that are vouched for in the Vestiges. _ 
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