T1IK A'AT ./.i l/.'-.-s \fAMTR9MAV. 



so much more highly did I pri/.e tin* conscious strength and 

 pleasure derived from moral mid religious feeling which. 

 1 IIKIV add, was mine witliont the inten enhon of dogma. 

 The error was not an L ie, hut this did not M 



from the pcnalt;. d to error. Saner knowledge 



taught me that the body is no weed, and that trea 

 Mich it would infallibly avenge itself. Am I personally 

 1 by this change "of front? Not so. (Jive me their 

 health, and there is no spiritual experience of those 

 years no resolve of duty, or work of mercy, no work >f 

 self-renouncement, no solemnity of thought, no jo\ in tin- 

 life and aspects of nature that would not still be mine; 

 and this without the least reference or regard to any purely 



<mal reward or punishment looming in the future. 

 And now I have to utter a "farewell" free from bitter- 

 ness to all my readers; thanking my friends for a sympathy 

 more steadfast. I would fain believe, if less noisy, than the 

 antipathy of my foes; and commending to these a passage 

 frm liishop Butler, which they have either not read or 

 failed to lay to heart. "It seems," saith the bishop,* 

 that men would he strangely headstrong and self-willed, 

 and disposed to exert themselves with an impetuosity 

 which would render society insupportable, and the living 

 in it impracticable, were it not for some acquired moder- 

 ation and self-government, some aptitude and readiness in 

 lining themselves, and concealing their sense of 

 things." 



CHAPTKi: \\\\\\. 



TMK REV. JAMES MAHTINFAU AND THE BELFAST ADDRESS.* 



to the publication of the fifth edition of those 

 laments" my attention had been directed by several 

 . and indeed eminent, persons, to an essay by tin- 

 lames Martineau, as demanding serious consideration 

 at my hands. I tried to give the essay the attention 

 claimed for it, and published my yiews of it as an Intro- 

 duction to 1'art II. of the " Fragment-." I there ref' 

 and here again refer with | 

 between Mi. Martineau and myself on certain poi 



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