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rainy days. The women-folk make the clothing, rear pigs and 

 fowls, and do all the house-work. Their dwelling, with its site, is 

 valued at a hundred and twenty dollars, their furniture at forty- 

 four dollars, their clothing at forty dollars, their farming appli- 

 ances at forty dollars. They have a water-buffalo, two hogs, 

 thirty fowls, ten ducks, a pair of geese, a dog, and a cat. Last 

 year Pong Hia sold twenty dollars' worth of rice from his farm, 

 and paid $3.60 in taxes. He has two hundred dollars out at inter- 

 est, at eighteen per cent. 



At this rate of production and consumption, the arable land in 

 the State of New York, with a reduction of one half its returns 

 on account of its more northern latitude, would support the total 

 population of the United States at the present time ; and the oc- 

 cupied arable land of the United States, with its producing power 

 diminished, on account of climate, to one half that of land at 

 Swatow, would feed a population equal to that of the whole world, 

 or over 1,400,000,000. 



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CHRISTIANITY AND AGNOSTICISM. 



By Rbv. Dr. HENRY WACE, 



PRINCIPAL OF KING'S COLLEGE. 



READERS who may be willing to look at this further reply on 

 my part to Prof. Huxley need not be apprehensive of being 

 entangled in any such obscure points of church history as those 

 with which the professor has found it necessary to perplex them 

 in support of his contentions ; still less of being troubled with 

 any personal explanations. The tone which Prof. Huxley has 

 thought fit to adopt, not only toward myself, but toward English 

 theologians in general, excuses me from taking further notice of 

 any personal considerations in the matter. I endeavored to treat 

 him with the respect due to his great scientific position, and he 

 replies by sneering at "theologians who are mere counsel for 

 creeds," saying that the serious question at issue "is whether 

 theological men of science, or theological special pleaders, are to 

 have the confidence of the general public," observing that Hol- 

 land and Germany are " the only two countries in which, at the 

 present time, professors of theology are to be found whose tenure 

 of their posts does not depend upon the result to which their 

 inquiries lead them," and thus insinuating that English theolo- 

 gians are debarred by selfish interests from candid inquiry. I 

 shall presently have something to say on the grave misrepresenta- 

 tion of German theology which these insinuations involve ; but 

 for myself and for English theologians I shall not condescend to 

 reply to them. I content myself with calling the reader's atten- 



