[5]. Dialogue, pp. 5, 6.
[6]. Daily News.
[7]. Essay, p. 120.
[8]. Ante, p. 300, No. cccclxvii.
[9]. Essay, p. 202.
[10]. Ibid., pp. 134–136.
[11]. Ibid., p. 137.
[12]. One or two of these “Discourses,” all of which were delivered in the Tron Church, Glasgow, at noon on the week day, were heard by the writer of this paper, then a boy. He had to wait nearly four hours before he could gain admission as one of a crowd, in which he was nearly crushed to death. It was with no little effort that the great preacher could find his way to his pulpit. As soon as his fervid eloquence began to stream from it, the intense enthusiasm of the auditory became almost irrestrainable; and in that enthusiasm the writer, young as he was, fully participated. He has never since witnessed anything equal to the scene.
[13]. Essay, pp. 193, 194.
[14]. In the “Dialogue,” Dr Whewell states that it was not till after the publication of his “Essay” that he became acquainted with the fact of the coincidence of his views, on the subject of Geology, with those of Mr Hugh Miller, in his “First Impressions of England,” with reference to astronomical objections to Revelation.