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paredness for its removal shall arrive ; and one of the most 
‘ advanced 3 of whom appears to be touched by a 
lingering sentiment of tenderness, while he blows his trumpet 
for a final assault at once upon the ‘ Syrian Superstition' and, 
on the poor, pale, and semi-animate substitutes for it, which 
Deism has devised It is not now only the Christian 
Church, or only the Holy Scripture, or only Christianity, 
which is attacked. The disposition is boldly proclaimed to 
deal alike with root and branch, and to snap utterly the ties 
which, under the still venerable name of religion, unite man 
with the unseen world, andjighten the struggles and the woes 
of life by the hope of a better land. These things are done 
as the professed results, and the newest triumphs of Modern 
Thought and Modern Science ; but I believe that neither 
Science nor Thought is responsible, any more than Liberty 
is responsible, for misdeeds committed in their names." 
F. PETRIE, 
Son. Sec. and Editor. 
31 st December, 1872. 
