122 PROF. J. LOGAN LOBLEY ON BIOLOGICAL CHANGE^ ETC. 



Far wider was the outlook of one who could write of Nature : — 

 " From scarped cliif and quarried stone 

 She cries, ' A thousand types are gone ; 

 I care for nothing, all shall go.' ""^ 



But that leads us into regions of thought which require other 

 faculties of perception than those which geology can furnish to the 

 human mind, as I have attempted to some extent to show in my 

 recent paper. 



Eeply by Professor Lobley. 



Dr. Irving is dissatisfied that my paper is not one quite different 

 from what it was intended to be — a plain and concise exposition of 

 geological facts and deductions, required by a previous paper for 

 the consideration of an Institute not mainly, or even largely, 

 geological, and so necessarily containing much that is well known 

 to geologists in addition to many facts that, so far as I am aware, 

 have not been before stated. One would have thought that an 

 attempt to do this would have been approved by a lover of geology, 

 but instead of approval it is met by Dr. Irving with the reverse. 



The " regions of thought " and " higher philosophy," to which 

 allusion is made, are outside the scope of my paper, and I am 

 unable to understand how any " New Geology " can invalidate 

 ascertained facts and sound deductions, which must remain good for 

 all time. 



* Tennyson's In Memoriam. 



