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the happiness of seeing my mother follow me 

 into the ... Church." [I regret that I am 

 unable, with propriety, to give fuller extracts 

 from the most interesting and instructive replies 

 of this correspondent.] 



Religious bias, with intellectual scepticism. 

 1. "I have not cultivated independence of 

 judgment in religious matters ; I have shrunk 

 from so doing in order to retain peace of 

 mind and leisure for my varied studies." 2. 

 " Much religious bias of thought, but no re- 

 spect for revealed religion as a base for 

 such a bias." 3. " Eeligious bias towards 

 natural theology strong, as distinguished from 

 dogma of any kind." 4. "I have, perhaps, a 

 religious bias from early habits and associations, 

 rather than from temperament ; but I have 

 always had more pleasure in sacred than in 

 secular music, which, perhaps, shows the pre- 

 dominance of the emotional tendency." 5. " A 

 profound religious tendency, capable of fanati- 

 cism, but tempered by no less profound theological 

 scepticism." 



