ESSAYS

BY GEORGE WILSON, F.R.S.E.
Late Regius Professor of Technology in the University of Edinburgh.

All things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was
made. In Him was life; and the life was the Light of Men.-JOHN i. 3, 4.

1862.

Edinburgh: T. Constable,

Printer to the Queen, and to the University.

ΤΟ

JOHN CAIRNS

THESE WRITINGS

OF

THE FRIEND HE SO DEARLY LOVED AND CHERISHED

ARE GRATEFULLY DEDICATED.

"Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.