ITS DEMORALIZING INFLUENCE. 247 
ginated, the express appointment of Oro, their 
powerful god, the antiquity it claimed, its remark¬ 
able adaptation to the indolent habits and depraved 
uncontrolled passions of the people, the sanction 
it received here, and the prospect it presented to 
its members, of the perpetuity, in a future state, of 
gratifications most congenial to those to whom 
they were exhibited, the Areoi institution appears 
a master-piece of satanic delusion and deadly infa¬ 
tuation, exerting an influence over the minds of 
an ignorant, indolent, and demoralized people, 
which no human power, and nothing less than a 
Divine agency, could counteract or destroy. 
