No doubt if it had been discovered who wrote the " Vestiges," many an ingenious structure of probabilities would have been spoiled, and some disgust might have been felt for a real author who made comparatively so shabby an appearance of likelihood.

Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Essays and Leaves from a Notebook, The Wasp Credited with the Honeycomb (p. 111), J.B. Lippincott Company. 1901