DISCOURSE

ON THE

STUDIES OF THE UNIVERSITY

OF CAMBRIDGE.

BY

ADAM SEDGWICK, M.A., F. R. S.,

WOODWARDIAN PROFESSOR,

AND FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE.

THE FIFTH EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS,

AND

A PRELIMINARY DISSERTATION.

LONDON:
JOHN W. PARKER.
CAMBRIDGE: JOHN DEIGHTON.

M. DCCC.L.

Cambridge

Printed at the University Press.

то

LB2321 546 1850

THE MASTER,

FELLOWS AND STUDENTS

OF

TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE,

AND

ESPECIALLY ΤΟ THOSE AT WHOSE REQUEST

IT IS PUBLISHED,

THE FOLLOWING DISCOURSE

IS DEDICATED

BY THEIR AFFECTIONATE AND FAITHFUL SERVANT,

THE AUTHOR.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

ix

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xvii

SECT.

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.

PREFACE TO THE FIFTH EDITION,

PRELIMINARY DISSERTATION.

1 Introductory Remarks on the Doctrine of Final Causes

2 Theory of Spontaneous Generation, Transmutation of Spe-

cies, &c.

3 Fætal Transformations, and their bearing on the Theory of

Development .

4 Organic Phenomena of Geology, and general remarks on

their bearing on the Theory of Development

5 Animal and vegetable Remains of the Primary or Palæozoic

Division.

First Forms of Vegetable and Animal Life as described in

The Vestiges, &c.

6 Fossils of the Secondary Division, &c.

7 Organic Remains of the Tertiary Division, &c.

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8 Materialism. Mechanical and Moral Laws. Laws of

Chance. Tendencies of Modern Science. Fantastical

views of Nature. Evils of rash Generalization. Educa-

tion, &c.

9 Conditions of the Mind that have led men to deny a Per-

sonal Creator. Atheism and Pantheism. Illustrations of

the doctrine of Final Causes. Galvanic and Phrenological

Hypotheses, Mechanical Inventions, &c. .

10 On the Ideal Theory of Locke-imperfections of his

Analysis. Schools of the Idealist and the Sensualists.

Mischief of setting up Idealism as the interpreter of

material nature, illustrated by the works of Oken, &c.

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