616 LEAVES THEY HAVE TOUCHED. 



business with meetings of the Eight and Sixteen, both on Friday and 

 Saturday. If my Brother is with you," he continues, " will you say 

 that I am to be in Cambridge by the time mentioned, and that I shall 

 be most happy to see him, and the sooner they can come after my 

 arrival there the better, because Term will then be over, and it is 

 very probable that business may very shortly after require my 

 presence at Buxted and elsewhere." (Buxted was his Living. The 

 Brother referred to was the poet.) 



Another eminent man at Cambridge, well known by sight to all 

 students of the year 1833 and downwards, was Adam Sedgwick. 

 He was among the earliest English geologists of note, and bore the 

 brunt of the first assaults on the new science. He was a Fellow of 

 Trinity and the seventh occupant of the Woodwardian Professorship 

 of geology. In 1833 he published a Discourse on the studies of the 

 University of Cambiidge, which ran through several editions and 

 still maintains its ground. In a note to that work he thus speaks 

 in relation to his favourite science : " We have nothing to fear from 

 the results of our inquiries, provided they be followed in the labo- 

 rious but secure road of honest induction. In this way we may rest 

 assured we shall never arrive at conclusions opposed to any truth, 

 either physical or moral, from whatsoever source that truth may be 

 derived : nay, rather, as in all truth there is a common essence, that 

 new discoveries will ever lend support and illusti-ation to things 

 which are already known, by giving us a larger insight into the 

 universal harmonies of nature." He thus maintained the perfect 

 compatibility of science isvith religion. In another place he asks a 

 question as pertinent to be put to speculative philosophers in 1875 

 as it was in 1833." "Shall this embryo of a material world," he 

 says, " contain within itself the germ of all the beauty and harmony, 

 the stupendous movements and exquisite adaptations of our system, 

 the entanglement of phenomena held together by complicated laws, 

 but mutually adjusted so as to work together to a common end, and 

 the relation of all these things to the functions of beings possessing 

 countless superadded powers, bound up with life and volition 1 And 

 shall we then satisfy ourselves by telling of laws of atomic action, 

 of mechanical movements, and chemical combinations ; and dare to 

 think that in so doing we have made one step towards an explana- 

 tion of the workmanship of the God of nature 1 So far from ridding 

 ourselves," the Professor adds, " by our hypothesis of the necessity 



