Book excerpt: Excerpt from Letter to a Clerical Friend on the Accordance of Geological Discovery With Natural and Revealed Religion In common with many other persons, I have derived great instruction and delight from such of Professor Sedgwick's Lectures on Geology as I have been able to attend; and I was especi ally pleased with his remarks, in the latter part of his last lecture, on the absence of any disagreement between geological discovery and the testimony of Scripture. Those remarks appeared to me well calculated to extinguish every infidel taunt, and to satisfy every reasonable scruple, on this branch of the subject. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.