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" Hosanua in the highest ! " Only one thing is to be 

 regretted, that Virchow has not more clearly defined 

 which of the many different church-religions is the 

 only true one, and which of the innumerable and con- 

 tradictory dogmas, are to form the sure basis of 

 instruction. "We all know that each Church regards 

 itself as the only truly saving one, and her own dogma 

 as the only true one. But as to whether it is to be 

 Protestantism or Catholicism, the Eefornied or the 

 Lutheran confession, whether the Anglican or the 

 Presbyterian dogma, whether the Eoman or the Greek 

 Church, the Mosaic or the Mohammedan dispensation, 

 whether Buddhism or Brahmanism, whether, finally, 

 it is to be one of the many fetish-religions of the 

 Indians .and Negroes that is to form the permanent 

 and sure basis of instruction, let us hope that Virchow 

 will at the next meeting of German naturalists and 

 physicians divulge his opinion. 



At any rate, the " instruction of the future, accord- 

 ing to Virchow," will be greatly simplified if he will do 

 this. For the dogma of the Trinity in Unity as a basis 

 of mathematics, the dogma of the resurrection of the 

 body as a basis of medicine, the dogma of infallibility 

 as a basis of psychology, the dogma of the immaculate 

 conception as a basis of genetic science, the dogma of 

 the staying of the sun as a basis of astronomy, the 

 dogma of the creation of the earth, animals, and plants 



