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Papist who believes in the " Infallibility" 

 of the Pope, or the most benighted Negro, 

 who practically makes feticism his god. 

 There is sufficient evidence that the " fools 

 of the 18th century, as the Psalmist of old 

 terms them, who virtually said, " There is 

 no Grod," led the professedly wise of the 

 19th century into all the follies, .paradoxes, 

 and extravagant speculations of those who 

 ignored Scripture, despised history, which 

 Bolingbroke once justly defined as " Philo- 

 sophy teaching by example;" and who 

 were content to accept the dogma of a 

 famous lay preacher of that day, which 

 may be regarded as the Shibboleth of the 

 party's creed, viz., " Scepticism is the 

 highest of duties; blind faith the .one 

 unpardonable sin."* 



Permit me, then, to reply to this strange 

 paradox, to quote what a more famous 

 preacher than Professor Huxley has said 

 on this subject, as his words are weighty, 

 and deserving of your most serious atten- 



* Huxley's Lay Sermons, p. 21. 



