i68 
March, 
Analyses 0} Books. 
thus ill-treated, every opinion which is rqeaed is 
not necessarily truth. Now a f , f tl tr ansadlions of a 
staple of the book, is scarcely well fitted ^ lor the t rified 
learned society. Had the author '^t aC ed them to definite laws, 
fadts, explained what they prove, d u bably hav e met with a 
very^di fferent^ re cep ti on a,’ the hands of that Conservative 
Association.” nlp instance — the publication 
of ^fihe ^Origin o^S^^ie^ ”^0^ J eremtads°mi 
the* ^sdnacy^the° prejudira^o 1 ^^®^ ^ his gain- 
Ttwe find Mr. Browne scienc" 
He writes “ It »s said tha run . g merely a milder and 
of to-day are Agnostics, whi tg of Mate rialists.” Now 
more respedlable name SD eak as the representative of 
we have certainly no author 1 y P . f occasion served, calmly 
Agnosticism, which would doubtl , t ^ u s Hum bug.” 
refer us to some sub-species or ^ d for the dismissal of 
But we regret to find a ^^^^f^ponents confounding 
positions “ totMly”ffer J ent e as those of the Atheist and the 
Ag On S the next page is an he 
enough to justify the rejedho wr j tes Those who have 
had consented to its co rr edtio . ^ Mesmerism> Biology (!), 
witnessed the wonderful phe n • a few jj nes lower 
Hypnotism, and Clairvoyance, & ^ ^ ^ th( , right t0 deny 
down, we read . Ana Hvnnotism, or Clairvoyance, 
the truth of Mesmerism, Bio gy, st y kn o Wt hat the term biology, 
&c.” Now surely Mr. B^m^lknow^ pre . engaged long 
meaning the science of , r & quaC kishly, to use it for a 
before certain persons thoug P I > simi i ar t0 , if not identi- 
certain method of pr0 “Expression first coined was “ elearo- 
cal with, Hypnotism. P d ; s k 0 f a single metal, or 
biology ” but when it of the hand and gazed 
of wood, or horn, &.C., p purpose as the compound disc 
at persistently answered the same ^rpo d and the 
of zinc and copper the prefix was imperti- 
new process or method o P “ We shou i d recommend 
nently and ignorantly i Biolc gy^ ^ dgfea> 
Mr. Browne to purge his pa pi 1 issue with the 
There is another poi Jnd him he clings to the old 
author. Unless we fail £ betwee n man and the rest of the 
notion of an absolu As bdow man is the animal king- 
organic world. rewrites ld# » Now the very same 
wtich maj beV/ed in favour of man's contmuance 
