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wont to advance as their authority for prosecuting and punishing 

 both classes of dehnquents." 



In conchision, may we not exclaim, in the words of the poet 

 Rogers in his Ode to Superstition, 



" Hence to the realms of Night 

 Dire Demon hence ! 

 Thy chain of adamant can bind 

 That little world, the human mind, 

 And sink its noblest powers 

 To impotence." 



