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common-sense view of the evidence, because there is a hare possibility of 
the prisoner’s innocence. In such a case as this, the sheepstealer or 
murderer goes forth to the world, with a brand of, “ not proven” stamped 
upon his character; he has been acquitted by a"lawyer’s trick, and is 
condemned by the good sense of the community. Who will employ him ? 
Who can trust him ? It would he better for him to he twice hanged, 
than endure the torture he is subject to in the world, whenever his pre¬ 
vious history becomes the subject of discussion. 
Such, we believe, is the position to which the theory of Omphalos 
would reduce the Mosaic account of the creation; a position, we are 
sure, which would he deplored as much by Mr. Gosse as by ourselves. 
We do not think that the cause of religion is served by these attempts 
to remove difficulties by metaphysical subtleties. 
“Non tali auxilio, nec defensoribus istis 
Tempus eget.” 
The most wonderful mystery of all, the salvation of man by the atoning 
sacrifice of the Son of God, has more than once been endangered by the 
rash attempts of injudicious friends to explain what God had left ob¬ 
scure. Tor ourselves, we believe that a mode of reconciling all dif¬ 
ficulties connected with the relation of the Bible to Science, does exist , 
and may be readily found, which would not detract one tittle from the 
authority of the former, nor require of us to abandon the use of our 
reason in the investigation of the latter. 
A Monogeaph of the Teesh-Watee Tolyzoa, ihcludihg all the 
khowh Species, both Beitish axd Foeeigh. By George James 
Allman, M. D., F. B. S., &c., Eegius Professor of Natural History 
in the University of Edinburgh. London: Printed for the Bay 
Society. 1857. 
De. Allmax’s Monograph on the Fresh-Water Polyzoa had long been 
announced among the forthcoming publications of the Bay Society. 
Such a work was much needed, and none seemed better fitted to un¬ 
dertake its preparation than a naturalist who had long made that group 
the object of his special study, and whose papers, published from time 
to time in scientific journals, constituted an important portion of the 
knowledge which we already possessed on the subject. The work has, 
however, at length been published; and those naturalists who have 
seen it will agree with us when we state that it has been executed in 
a manner in every respect worthy of its author. To those who have 
not, a slight notice of its contents may be desirable, in the hope that, 
perchance, they may be induced to take up a subject abounding in in¬ 
teresting details, and to which a valuable and trustworthy guide is now 
for the first time offered. 
Dr. Allman’s treatise may be said to consist essentially of two parts, 
