I am tempted to believe that such a course would call forth exertions of the most valuable character, as well as give additional circulation to what is already done on that subject.
The geological speculations which have been adduced, perhaps with too much haste by some, as according with the Mosaic history, and by others, as inconsistent with its truth, would, if this subject had been attentively considered, have been allowed to remain until the fullest and freest inquiry had irrevocably fixed their claim to the character of indisputable facts.

But, I will not press this subject further on my reader's attention, lest he should think I am myself delivering the lecture.

All that I could have said on this point has been so much more ably stated by one whose enlightened view of geological science has taken away some difficulties from its cultivators, and, I hope, removed a stumbling-block from many respectable individuals, that I should only weaken by adding to the argument.

[I allude to the critique of Dr.Ure's Geology in the British Review, for July, 1829; an Essay, equally worthy of a philosopher and a Christian.] SECTION 10.

OF THE CROONIAN LECTURE.
The payment [Three pounds.] for this Lecture, like that of the preceding, is small.