for another purpose, if
you will allow me.

Mr. Justice North: You will not use them here at all, sir.

Mr. Foote: May they not be used, my lord to show that an
equally free use of religious symbols, and religious language,
prevails widely in all classes of literature and society?

Mr. Justice North: No they may not. I decline to hear them
read. They are not in evidence, and I refuse to allow you to
quote from such documents as part of your speech.

Mr. Foote: Well, gentlemen, I will now ask your attention
very briefly to another branch of the subject.

The fact is, I was perfectly satisfied. I had purposely kept the _War
Cry_ till the last. It naturally ended my list of citations, and his
lordship's victory was entirely specious.

Those who may wish to read my address in its entirety will find it in
"The Three Trials for Blasphemy." For those, however, who are not so
curious or so painstaking, I give here the peroration only, to show
what sentiments I appealed to in the breasts of the jury, and how far my
defence was from boastfulness or servility:

"Gentlemen,--I told you at the outset that you, are the last
Court of Appeal on all questions affecting the liberty of the
press and the right of free speech and Freethought. When I say
Freethought, I do not refer to specific doctrines that may pass
under that name: I refer to the great right of Freethought, that
Freethought which is neither so low as a cottage nor so lofty
as a pyramid, but is like the soaring azure vault of heaven,
which over-arches both with equal case. I ask you to affirm
the liberty of the press, to show by your verdict that you
are prepared to give to others the same freedom that you claim
for yourselves. I ask you not to be misled by the statements
that have been thrown out by the prosecution, nor by the authority
and influence of the mighty and rich Corporation which commenced
this action, has found the money for it, and whose very solicitor
was bound over to prosecute. I ask you not to be influenced
by these considerations, but rather to remember that this present
attack is made upon us probably because we are connected with
those who have been struck at again and again by some of the
very persons who are engaged in this prosecution; to remember
that England is growing day by day in its