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volving what might sometimes be fairly re- 
garded as undue prejudice, or possibly a feeling 
of personal or even national jealousy. Much 
as we should deprecate the excitement of any 
feeling of hostility of this kind, yet we could 
not, in our editorial capacity, shrink from the 
plain duty of endeavouring to advocate what 
appeared to us right and true; and we trust 
that whatever opinion may be entertained as 
to the conclusions to which we have come on 
such points, we shall not have given ground 
for any complaint that we have violated any 
due courtesy or propriety in our mode of ex- 
pressing those conclusions, or the reasons on 
which they are founded. 
