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nate the brain of Thought retarding, God fear- 

 ing, Church crippled Man ; brush the dust 

 from his blinded eyes and disclose to him the 

 majestic thoroughfare stretching grandly out 

 to the shining Temple of Progress, an Olym- 

 pus the poor dupe who tamely submits to the 

 dark guidance of Religion can never see. 



Original Thought, fair thriving child of pro- 

 lific young Dame Education, has found a dead- 

 lier enemy than ever adventurous, valorous, 

 wrong redressing Amadis o'ercame in foul, 

 fire breathing Dragon of the Myths of yore. 

 That foe is Holy Church, whose Titan power, 

 whose Briserius reach and whose Machaivel- 

 lian craft at one fell period of theworld's sad 

 history almost blotted Intellectuality out of 

 human minds, laid struggling Science on a 

 Caecus' bed, and infamously halted the sub- 

 lime march of divine Progress on its difficult 

 but inevitable way. 



It is this Original Thought, cradled in some 

 Crichton's brain, that has exquisitely chiselled 

 the civilized (or rather the civilizing) Man out 

 of the rough barbarian ; that is irresistibly, 

 openly and enlighteningly overthrowing the 

 Colossus of the Chvirch ; and that more and 

 more conclusively demonstrates in the minu- 



