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seem to conflict, or may hereafter conflict with facts deduced from 

 actual study of Nature, and thus prepare their minds for the re- 

 ception of such truths as may be discovered, without embittered 

 discussions. 



Patience, too, must be counselled. For much delay will ensue 

 before this desired result is arrived at ; patience under attack, pa- 

 tience under misrepresentation, but never controversy. 



Thus will be hastened the time, when the glorious, all sufficient 

 spiritual light, which though given through another race, we have 

 adopted as our own, shall shine with its pristine purity, freed from 

 the incrustations with which it has been obscured by the vanity 

 of partial knowledge, and the temporary contrivances of human 

 polity. 



So, too, by freely extended scientific culture, may we hope that 

 the infinitely thicker and grosser superstitions and corruptions will 

 be removed, which greater age and more despostic governments 

 have accumulated around the less brilliant, though important re- 

 ligions of our Asiatic Aryan relatives. These accretions being 

 destroyed, the principal difficulty to the reception by those nations 

 of higher spiritual truths will be obviated, and the intelligent 

 Hindoo or Persian will not be tardy in recognizing in the pure life 

 and elevated doctrine of the sincere Christian, an addition to, and 

 fuller expression of religious precepts with which he is familiar. 

 In this manner alone may be realized the hope of the philosopher, 

 the dream of the poet, and the expectation of the theologian. A 

 Universal Science, and a Universal Religion, cooperating harmo- 

 niously for the perfection of man and the glory of his Creator. 



THE CROCODILE IN FLORIDA. 



Ik the warm, placid waters of tropical streams whose banks are 

 bordered by reedy marshes and forests of perpetual green, is the 

 home of the crocodile. About the middle of the day numbers 

 may be seen lying lazily on the banks enjoying the heat, their 

 polished scales shining in the sunlight, and all looking the very 

 picture of tropical languor and repose. Its daily food is the 



