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FRASER'S MAGAZINE. 



"A most original, acute, well-expressed, and altogether re- 

 markable book . . . distinguished not more by originality than 

 by piety, earnestness, and eloquence ; ... but there seems a 

 certain want of clearness and sharpness of presentment about it. 

 ... If its author should succeed in indoctrinating the race with 

 his views, he will produce an intellectual revolution." 



LITERARY GAZETTE. 



" We have before us a volume which has survived a compara- 

 tively short period of probation, and has already attained the 

 honours of a new issue. The solid thought which it contains, the 

 general tendency of its teaching, and the high tone of its religion 

 and morality, more than account for its success. It is, moreover, 

 precisely calculated to meet in a certain measure the mental re- 

 quirements of an important, if not very numerous class of readers, 

 those, namely, whom various modern writers have stimulated into 

 a sense of the mysteriousness of human life, and into a desire for 

 some sort of solution of its multitudinous problems." 



ILLUSTRATED TIMES. 



" A volume of extraordinary pith and mark, both as to talent 

 and novelty of speculation .... His doctrine has a romantic 

 interest about it, which appeals to the least speculative person. 

 . . . The book is one of extreme interest, full of beauty, subtlety, 

 power, and tenderness; but diffuse even to occasional tediousness. 

 We part with it, for the present, with the profoundest respect for 

 the talents and the motives of the author." 



FREEMAN. 



" We have exhibited enough of the character of the book to 

 make our thoughtful readers desirous of knowing it better. It 

 aims at nothing less than a subversion of the ordinary methods of 

 thinking about most spiritual things, yet in no infidel or doubting 

 spirit. On the contrary, we should look far before we found a 

 writer who was so thoroughly a believer. His earnestness is even 

 a disqualification for his being an effective teacher. We are not 

 always sure, even after attentive reading, that we have exactly 

 caught his meaning." 



