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| the Principles which regulate Human Belief; subversive of the grand Argument founded on Design.—The profounder Theologians of the Day not Anti-Geologists.—Geologic Fact in reality of a kind fitted to perform important Work in the two Theologies, Natural and Revealed; subversive of the "Infinite-Series" Argument of the Atheist; subversive, too, of the Objection drawn by Infidelity from an Astronomical Analogy.—Counter-objection.—Illustration. | 335 | |
| CHAPTER XVIII. | ||
| The Penny-a-mile Train and its Passengers.—Aunt Jonathan.—London by Night.—St. Paul's; the City as seen from the Dome.—The Lord Mayor's Coach.—Westminster Abbey.—The Gothic Architecture a less exquisite Production of the Human Mind than the Grecian.—Poets' Corner.—The Mission of the Poets.—The Tombs of the Kings.—The Monument of James Watt.—A humble Coffee-house and its Frequenters.—The Woes of Genius in London.—Old 110, Thames-street.—The Tower.—The Thames Tunnel.—Longings of the True Londoner for Rural Life and the Country; their Influence on Literature.—The British Museum; its splendid Collection of Fossil Remains.—Human Skeleton of Guadaloupe.—The Egyptian Room.—Domesticities of the Ancient Egyptians.—Cycle of Reproduction.—The Mummies. | 366 | |
| CHAPTER XIX. | ||
| Harrow-on-the-Hill.—Descent through the Formations from the Tertiary to the Coal Measures.—Journey of a Hundred and Twenty Miles Northwards identical, geologically, with a journey of a Mile and a Quarter Downwards.—English very unlike Scottish Landscape in its Geologic Framework.—Birmingham Fair.—Credulity of the Rural English; striking Contrast which they furnish, in this Respect, to their Countrymen of the Knowing Type. -The English Grades of Intellectual Char- | ||
