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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. 



