d, and they become the current
ecclesiastical coin of our country. The whole body of clergy, here spoken
of, have undergone the preliminary induction of baptism and confirmation;
and all have been duly ordained, _professing_ to hold one faith, and to
believe in the selfsame doctrines! In short, to be as identical as the
20,000 sovereigns, if compared one with the other. But mind is not
malleable and ductile, like gold; and all the preparations of tests,
creeds, and catechisms will not insure uniformity of belief. No stamp of
orthodoxy will produce the same impress on the minds of different men.
Variety is manifest, and patent, upon everything mental and material. The
Almighty has not created, nor man fashioned, two things alike! How futile,
then, is the attempt to shape and mould man's apprehension of divine truth
by one fallible standard of man's invention! If proof of this be required,
an appeal might be made to history and the experience of eighteen hundred
years."

This is an argument of force against the reasonableness of expecting tens
of thousands of educated readers of the New Testament to find the doctrine
above described in it. The lady's argument against the doctrine itself is
very striking. Speaking of an outcry on this matter among the Dissenters
against one of their body, who was the son of "the White Stone (Rev. ii.
17), or the Roman cement-maker," she says--

"If the doctrine for which they so wickedly fight were true, what would
become of the black gentlemen for whose redemption I have been sacrificed
from April 8 1839."

There are certainly very curious points about this revelation. There have
been many surmises about the final restoration of the infernal spirits,
from the earliest ages of Christianity until our own day: a collection of
them would be worth making. On reading this in proof, I see a possibility
that by "black gentlemen" may be meant the clergy: {103} I suppose my first
interpretation must have been suggested by context: I leave the point to
the reader's sagacity.]

JAMES SMITH, ARCH-PARADOXER.

The Problem of squaring the circle solved; or, the circumference and
area of the circle discovered. By James Smith.[200] London, 1859, 8vo.

On the relations of a square inscribed in a circle. Read at the British
Association, Sept. 1859, published in the Liverpool Courier, Oct. 8,
1859, and reprinted in broadsheet.

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