FOX-HUNTING. 53 



forbidden the prevention and sanctioned the admission 

 of loathsome diseases, and anti-fox-hunting may be as 

 loud a cry as anti-vaccination ; when there is a Par- 

 liament on College Green ; when the " languishing 

 nobleman " of Dartmoor is free, and repossessed of 

 his broad acres, which, in his case alone, because they 

 so clearly belong to some one else, shall escape con- 

 fiscation ; when, as a final climax to our national 

 madness, we have employed science to dig a hole 

 under the sea, and, by connecting us with the Con- 

 tinent, deprive us of the grand advantage which nature 

 has given us, and which has conferred on us centuries 

 of envied stability, while thrones were rocking and 

 constitutions sinking all around us ; when, having 

 already passed laws not only to prohibit our children 

 being educated with the knowledge and fear of God 

 before their eyes, but even to forbid His very name 

 to be mentioned in our schools, we deliberately and 

 scornfully abandon our ancient religion and admit 

 proclaimed infidelity and public blasphemy to the 

 sanction, recognition, and approval of Parliament ; 



