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capite, and on the other side.mucro. The 
length of the blade is about 25 inches, 
that of the hilt 3: the whole length of the 
sword being 33 inches; the greatest 
breadth about 24 inches. 
Tt must be observed however that my 
examination of this precious relic was 
rather cursorily made ; for although it was, 
after certain ceremonies, applied to my 
forehead and lips, by the monk who ex- 
hibited it, any more familiar handling of 
it might perhaps have given scandal, not 
to the worthy guardian, but to a number 
of peasants who; hearing the relic was to 
be produced, hastened to avail themselves 
of the opportunity to have at least a dis. 
tant view of this object of their respect. 
When we reflect that the genuine Roman 
gladius, was, according to the best ac- 
counts, to the representations on the his- 
toric columnsof Trajan and Antoninus in 
Rome, to coins and cther authentic autho- 
rities, a short double-edged sharp-pointed 
weapon, in length from 14 to16 inches, 
it will be evident that the decapitation of 
St. Paul was performed probably by the 
securis, OF axe, or at any rate not by an 
ancient Roman sword. 
Having thus hastily viewed some of the 
most remarkable objects in and about 
Toledo, for to examine the whole with 
due attention would have required as 
many weeks as I could spare days, [ re- 
turned to Madrid to prepare for the con- 
tinuation of my tour through La Mancha 
to Valencia, Barcelona, &c. on my return 
to France. 
(Lo be continued. ) 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine: 
SIR, 
«6 Pte been so oft remembered I am forgot.” 
OR once the author of Hudibras 
‘might adopt the words of the author 
of the Night Thoughts. 
Few passsages have been so often quo- 
ted as that of Butler, concerning which 
_your correspondent enquires. The Greek 
verse: 
Avagd” 6 devyav x warw payectlate 
of which it is a diffusive translation, seems 
-to have been as proverbial in Greece as 
this : ) 
The man who fights and runs away 
May live to fight another day. 
The two others are thus: 
For those that fly may fight again, 
Which he cannot do that’s slain, 
There is an admirable French transla- 
tion quoted by Z. Grey, in his Hudibras 
of this and another passage of a similar 
kind. 
The lines immediately corresponding 
with-the subject of the enquiry are these, 
*« Car ceux qui s’ en‘uyent peuvent revenir 
sur leur pas 5 
Ainsi ne sont jamais mis hors de combat. 
Mais ceux, au contraire, qui demeurent 
sur la place, 
Se privent de tout moyen de venger leur 
disgrace.” 
ON THE MATERIAL, IMMATERIAL, AND 
‘ MIXT HYPOTHESIS. 
“ Tl esser apparente ed il Esser VERO.” == 
Sonn. di GRALINI. 
I am glad to find the metaphysical sub- 
ject revived by W. EH. I hope and think 
he is the same with Ilylaus. He bas ex- 
prest the reasons, which prove the simple 
material hypothesis impossible to be true, 
with great perspicuity and force. But 
I would observe that, although simple 
materialism cannot possibly be true, the 
very reasons that prove it can not, are 
many of them strong arguments against 
the mixt hypothesis. That matter, if it 
exist, 1S essentially impercipient and in- 
capable of sensation as of intellectual 
activity, seems to me-perfectly clear. 
Sentient matter cannot be inert matter, 
it must feel. Jt must think, at least, 
think ov its feeliags, and seek pleasure and 
avoid pain. ' But voluntary, active, feel-= 
ing, thinking being, that has its owa ends 
and chuses its means to them, 1s mind, 
not matter. 
Bod, may and does exist, in the only 
sense which the phenomena require, or 
seem to admit, though matter seems to 
have no existence. For body will then 
mean the energies of mind rendered sen- 
sible by certain general permanent phe- 
nomena, and acting by fixed laws in this 
production of new phenomena and ef- 
tects ; also general. 
And this will prove the clear boun- 
dary between imagination and fact.— 
Both are phenomena, both are believed 
real, neither has any material existence 
independently of mind. But fact repre- 
sents permanent general phenomena re~ 
cognised as such by all mids possessing 
the requisite faculties, and in circum- 
stances to apply them. 
The shining of the sun 1s a fact, With 
this the existence or non-existence of mat- 
ter is indifferent.. It is a fact, that the 
phenomenon and its consequent sensa- 
tion and “effects permanently and gene- 
rally take place. Butif I dream of a 
sun, if I imagine a sun at midnight wher 
no such phenomenon can be sensible to 
others 
