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the massive pillars of their marvelloiis temples ; or that the language of the 

 Roman conquerers of the world was feeble and inarticulate because we had never 

 been taught Latin. We might as well say that the polished inhabitants of ancient 

 Greece, or that the educated Prussians, the metaphysical Germans, or the vivacious 

 Parisians, of our own day, could onl}^ make known their individual wants and 

 requirements to each other by mere gesticulations and unmeaning sounds, 

 because we had not taken the pains to acquire a knowledge of their respective 

 tongues, 



Neither do diverse theories concerning the past history of our globe, swarming 

 like ephemera every season, emanate from geologists. We grant that such 

 attacks as the "Voices," and other productions more puerile in character, are con- 

 stantly buzzing for a day and perishing like flies ; and, if we wrote in the same spirit 

 as the author of the " Voices," we might imfute to their authors both the disregard 

 of Scripture, which he imputes to geologists, and a total disregard and often 

 designed imperception of truth, which has never been fairly charged against 

 the latter. We, however, regard such prodactlons more with pity than contempt, 

 and still less with bitterness. Geologists contemplating the wisdom and benevo- 

 lence of God, through (to our finite intellect) almost eternal ages — ages still only a 

 fraction, as it were, of ages still more infinite, and still but an unreckonable flash 

 of that incomprehensible eternity of the Godhead — contemplating the skill, the 

 progress, and adaption of life and vegetation through uncountable ages to the pur- 

 poses of a world-development ; contemplating the design, the end, and purpose of 

 the marvellous changes of the past — and inferring thereby the glorious future to 

 which man is indubitably destined — geologists, we repeat, cannot be unimbued 

 with deep religious feelings, and it is not fair for authors possibly ignorant of the 

 meaning even of the epithets they use to class its professors and votaries in the 

 category of irrationalists and false philosophers. 



A Geological Map in rcli'^f of Brighton and its Environs for Eight Miles around, based 

 on the Ordnance Survey, and Mod/dled from Nature, hy J. Brion and Sons ; 

 ihe Geology by Eknest P. Wilkiks, F.G.S., M.R.S.C., &c. Size twenty-four inches 

 by twenty : Stanford, Charing Cross, 1858. 

 This map illustrates the physical features of the South Downs, and the design of 

 the series, of which this is the second, (that of the Isle of Wight being already 

 published), is to aid in popularizing the study of geology, by presenting 

 to the eye faithful contours of the different geological formations of the 

 British Isles. The horizontal measurements of the Ordnance Survey have been 

 rigidly followed, and the vertical data have been supplied by Col. James, of the 

 Ordnance. Every portion of the map has been modelled with care from 

 nature, and the various bassets approximate closely to truth. The work is 

 as correct in this respect as it can be in the absence of the more minute details of 

 the Government Geological Survey. The geological portion has been executed 

 under the joint direction of E. P. Wilkins, Esq., F.G.S., and P. J. Martin, Esq., 

 F.G.S. 



In recommending this map, as we willingly do, we would suggest that its utility, 

 and that of all similar maps, would be greatly enhanced by having arrows inscribed 

 at various places, indicating the dip of the strata. This should especially be done 

 on each side of hill-ranges and valley-tracts, as those due to flexures and upheavals, 

 to synclinal depressions, or down-tiirow faults, could thus be distinguished 

 from those due to mere abrasion and denudation. The geological history of the 

 area mapped in relief would thus be more thoroughly and more truthfully told. 

 The more plentiful insertion of heights and levels above the sea would also be a 

 useful improvement. 



Geology and Mineralogy, considered loith reference to Natural Theology. By the late 

 Very Rev. William Buckland, D.D., F.R.S. : Routledge and Co., Farringdon 

 Street. 1858. 



"It is wonderful," says Longfellow, speaking of Goethe, "when a great man dies, 

 how the world goes on without him ; " and in the ever-changing state of man's 

 existence, this is true. The time and season of his active efforts have generally 



