Note 92 — Chapter VI · EIGHT YEARS OF QUIET PROGRESS.

The Very Reverend W. Cockburn, D.D., who testified against the Association in a pamphlet entitled "The Dangers of Peripatetic Philosophy" (published in 1838). When the Association met at York in 1844, he read a paper before the Geological Section, criticising that science, and propounding a cosmogonical theory of his own. He was severely handled by Professor Sedgwick, but published his paper under the title, "The Bible defended against the British Association." This, though an exceptionally silly production, had a large sale. ("Life and Letters of Sedgwick," vol. ii. p. 76.)