THE OLD AND NEW PHILOSOPHY.
ONE of the most marvellous works which has charmed and instructed the present age is Darwin's " Origin of Species." There is something so naturally attractive in the very ancient ancestry chalked out for the human. race by that distinguished savant, that nothing less than the power of Babbage's Calculating Machine, we imagine, could estimate the time which must have been consumed, and the unlimited number of metempsychoses which must have taken place, before Nature could