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brace or understand. Indeed the attempt, 
I am convinced, would be ineffectual, if not 
dangerous, and therefore I object to the 
establishment or introduction of any theo- 
logical system on the continent of Africa. 
I do not address my sentiments on this 
occasion to any description of persons 
who, from early habits, have been taught to 
view the most important subjects through 
the dark mist of prejudice. Were I to act 
otherwise, I must commence an endless 
warfare with the passions, and my inten- 
tions, however good, be liable to miscon- 
ception and reproach. No man, I believe, 
at this moment, entertains a more profound 
respect for those truths which are promul- 
gated under the divine authority of the 
christian dispensation than myself ; but as 
I earnestly wish the Cape of Good Hope 
may remain for ever an appendage to the 
crown of England, I have been induced 
to offer my objections to such measures as 
I thought would defeat so glorious a pur- 
pose, and, at the same time, to recommend 
others that had a tendency to secure it. 
On such an occasion the politician surely 
may be allowed to check the honest zeal of 
