388 CONCLUSION. 



to an extent yet undreamed, the faculties of some of those 

 who are to succeed them. The result may be that in the 

 distant future may arise, according to natural law, expounders 

 of a higher philosophy, who will be armed with authority to 

 decree that we who now believe, as well as our fathers who 

 believed, in God, and in miracle, and in Christianity, 

 believed in what never could have existed, and were but the 

 deluded followers of a kindly, harmless, but utterly ground- 

 less superstition. 



CORRIGENDA, 



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