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the massive pillars of their marvellous temples ; or that the language of the 
Roman conqucrers of the world was feeble and inarticulate because we had never 
been taught Latin. We miglit as well say that the polished inhabitants of ancient 
Greece, or that the educated Prussians, the metaphysical Ocruians, or the vivacious 
Parisians, of our own day, could only 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 impute to their authors both the disregard 
of Scripture, which he imputes to geologists, and a total disregard aud oftea 
designed imperception of truth, which has never been fairly cliarged against 
the latter. We, however, regard such productions more with pity than contempt, 
and still less with bitterness. Greolo^ists coutemplating tlie 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, aud adaption of life and vegetation tiirough uncountable ages to the pur- 
poses of a world-development ; contemplating the design, the end, and purpo.se 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 relief of Briijhton and its Environs for Eight Miles around, based 
on the Ordnance Survey, and Modelled from Nature, by J. Brion and Sons ; 
ihc Geology by EaNEsT P. WilkIxNs, 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 difl'erent 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 insci-ibed 
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-throw 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 with 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 
