A parish where life is precarious pays more poor-rates than its neighbors. - Robert Chambers

Geology at first seems inconsistent with the authority of the Mosaic record. A storm of unreasoning indignation rises against its teachers. In time, its truths, being found quite irresistible, are admitted, and mankind continue to regard the Scriptures with the same respect as before. So also with several other sciences.

We cannot doubt after what we know of the power of heat that the nebulous form of matter was attended by the condition of a very high temperature.

I cannot but here remind the reader of what Dr. Wiseman has shewn so strikingly in his lectures, how different new philosophic doctrines are apt to appear after we have become somewhat familiar with them.