369 fancy and Imagination. 
Pentateuch, as will be presently shown, was falsified by the 
Samaritans, in order to make it appear that the Mount 
Gerizim and not Jerusalem was the spot indicated by 
Moses where the national temple was to be built. After 
the temple at Gerizim had stood for 200 years, it was com- 
pletely destroyed 129 B.c. by John Hyrcanus, one of the 
Maccabean princes, and the Samaritans were brought 
under subjection. But neither force nor persuasion could 
influence them to adopt orthodox Judaism. They con- 
tinued to perform their worship, as before, near the ruins of 
their temple, and the opening of the Christian era found 
them distinct in their worship, and as bitter as ever in their 
hatred to the Jews. The Samaritans seem to have been 
unfavourably regarded by the founder of Christianity. 
Jesus does not recognise them as Jews, and what is more, 
he forbids the twelve whom he sends forth, to enter any of 
their cities. A bitter, and enduring animosity, grows up 
between the Christians and the Samaritans, and they per- 
secute each other with all the barbarity of which the early 
centuries offer many painful examples. Rome also found 
the Samaritans difficult to govern, coercion and conciliation 
having alike failed. In spite of the havoc committed in 
their ranks by the Roman legions, the Samaritans increased 
rapidly during the early centuries of the present era, and 
several sects arose amongst them. From the middle of the 
tenth century they began to fall off, and at the present 
time their whole community does not exceed fifty families. 
They still worship on the Mount Gerizim and their Pass- 
over festival is inaugurated with the sacrifice of a lamb. 
In 1861, Mr. George Grove was present during the 
solemnization by them of the Day of Atonement, and the 
account which he has published of their ritual is highly in- 
teresting and instructive. 
(To be continued.) 
FANCY AND IMAGINATION. 
OST of our best writers on the subject of the “ Plea- 
sures of Imagination” and Addison among them, 
have given their attention solely to the regions of taste, and 
appear to think that fancy is exercised on no other topics 
