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of all other affairs, for even migratory birds will stoop from their 

 flight through air and light to screech around an old night-spectre. 

 In Northern Italy, where game is scarce, every farmer has a tame buba 



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Fig. 10. Decoy Owls. 



and a potful of bird-lime, and thousands of northern songsters, hasten- 

 ing fondly home from their winter-quarters on the Mediterranean, fall 

 a victim to their ruling passion and perish in exile " butchered to 

 make a Roman holiday." 



"NATURAL RELIGION." 



A STUDY IN THE GROWTH OP SCIENTIFIC MORALITY. 



By R. W. BOODLE. 



II. 



k now 

 Its writer 

 is clearly himself a believer in supernaturalism, if not as very tangi- 

 ble, yet as an underlying possibility. He begins by stating the prob- 



TIIE preliminary discussion of last month enables us to speak 

 more directly of the work on " Natural Religion." 



