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of nature, I am unwilling to quit his book without ex- 

 pressing my admiration of his genius, and my respect for 

 his character. Though barely known to him personally, 

 his recent death affected me as that of a friend. With 

 regard to the style of his book, I heartily subscribe to the 

 description with which the *' Times" winds up its able and 

 appreciative review. "It is marked throughout with the 

 most serious and earnest conviction, but is without a sin- 

 gle word from first to last of asperity or insinuation against 

 opponents; and this not from any deficiency of feeling as 

 to the importance of the issue, but from a deliberate and 

 resolutely maintained self-control, and from an over-ruling, 

 ever-present sense of the duty, on themes like these, of a 

 more than judicial calmness." 



[To the argument regarding the quantity of the mirac- 

 ulous, introduced at page 21, Mr. Mozley has done me 

 the honor of publishing a Beply in the seventh volume 

 of the *' Contemporary Review." — J. T.] 



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Among the scraps of manuscript, written at the time 

 when Mr. Mozley's work occupied my attention, I find 

 the following reflections: 



With regard to the influence of modern science which 

 Mr. Mozley rates so low, one obvious effect of it is to 

 enhance the magnitude of many of the recorded miracles, 

 and to increase proportionably the difficulties of belief. 

 The ancients knew but little of the vastness of the uni- 

 verse. The Rev. Mr. Kirkman, for example, has shown 

 what inadequate notions the Jews entertained regarding 



