192 ANSWER TO “ A SUBSCRIBER FROM THE COMMENCEMENT.” 
severer torments of death at the stake, for asserting those truths which 
no man thinks now of denying, and which have been confirmed and 
established by the still more important discoveries of our own immortal 
Newton. That most able and highly-gifted individual who now adorns 
the University of Cambridge, and that college in it which has to boast 
the names of two of the greatest philosophers of any age or country— 
for what can be greater than those of Bacon and Newton ?—and whose 
own name, hereafter, will be added to a list of worthies unexampled in 
the annals of science, and claiming the admiration of the latest 
posterity: he, I say, who has made the geology of this country, in 
particular, the object of his special attention—and after this description 
of him it is needless to add the name of Professor Sedgwick—in that 
matchless and profound discourse which he has published on the studies 
of the University—a work which, in a small compass, contains volumes, 
and which can never be too much read or too seriously reflected on— 
has abundantly and unanswerably replied to all such objections. It 
will never be found that real science is at variance with scriptural 
truth. It may help us to a better and clearer interpretation of those 
truths which are recorded in scripture, but never will it impugn the 
sacred oracles or promote the cause of irreligion or infidelity. If it 
enlarges our views of this wonderful creation; if it enables us more 
clearly to understand the mechanism of the world we live in, and the 
admirable contrivances for the preservation of the creatures which 
inhabit it, and the unerring laws by which the worlds around us are 
moved, and governed, and retained in their several orbits, or in their 
dependent systems; it can only lead us to contemplate with more 
reverential awe the inconceivable power and majesty of that Infinite 
and Almighty Being who called them into existence by his single 
fiat, f who spake the word and they were made, who commanded and 
it stood fast/ 
“ With these views, then, let us approach the great book of creation, 
and apply ourselves to study its pages with feelings of gratitude and 
veneration towards Him who formed it. Of love for the goodness, of 
reverence for the power, of awe for the majesty, of admiration for the 
wisdom displayed in all his works, of thankfulness for our own creation, 
for our preservation, and for all the blessings of this life; and let us 
remember that this world is but a passage to another, and that natural 
religion is but the portal by which we may approach to that which is 
revealed.” 
Answer to “ A Subscriber from the Commencement.” 
—We would advise that the whole area within the walls be first 
trenched fifteen inches deep, laying the surface level. When all the 
