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" moral sentiments," in that he abstains from making education in 

 rehgion — in Revealed Religion — the foundation and paramount prin- 

 ciple of his " perfect system." 



He professes the phrenological philosophy : and this maintains 

 the doctrine that the " Supremacy of the Moral Sentiments," in all 

 mental exercise and government, is a distinct and eternal institution 

 of the Supreme Creator. Now, the most exalted, from their being 

 the most responsible, of all the " moral sentiments" — of all the men- 

 ial faculties — are those which dispose man to worship a deity, to do 

 justice, to practice mercy, and to hope for immortality. Wherefore, 

 instructed by Phrenology, we do affirm, and are fully prepared to 

 shew, that no system of education can be a " perfect system," un- 

 less it includes a predominant and special provision for educating 

 the innate " moral sentiments," which intuitively and naturally 

 dispose IMan to be a religious Being, desirous of being led, through 

 virtue, to the reception of everlasting happiness. 



FINE ARTS. 



MUSIC—VOCAL. 



A Funeral Anthem on the Death of the late Charles Wesley. By 

 Samuel Wesley. London : J. A. Novello, 69, Dean-street, 

 Soho. 



We have yet to discover the proofs of Samuel Wesley's greatness 

 as a composer. From what we have already seen of his works, we 

 suspect that his pretensions have been greatly exaggerated by a cer- 

 tain party in this countiy, that through the trumpet-blasts of this 

 party he has, in the present day, acquired a celebrity which pos- 

 terity, far from raising, will considerably lower ; and that, what- 

 ever may have been his merits as a performer on the organ, or even 

 as a sound musician, lie will never take his stand amongst the mas- 

 ter-minds who have advanced the art by the invention of a new 

 style, and by bringing new and untried resources to bear upon the 

 latent emotions of the soul. His temporary celebrity we attribute 

 rather to the exceeding dearth of talent among his contemporaries 

 in this country than to any intrinsic greatness of mind ; rather to 

 the force of favourable circumstances, than to the possession of that 

 power which controuls and overcomes the most adverse. An ordi- 

 nary mortal, he lived amid a race of Lilliputians; what wonder, 

 then, that these should regard him as the great " man mountain" 



