axyridical_, _amosgepotical_, _kalos geusis_, nor distinguish
them from _aneroid_, cannot be trusted when he says he has translated a
sentence of Aristotle. He may have done it; but, as he says of
spiritualism, we must suspend our opinion until further evidence shall
arrive.

We now come to the theological review. I have before alluded to the faults
of logic which are Protestant necessities: but I never said that Protestant
argument had _nothing but_ paralogism. The writer before me attains this
completeness: from beginning to end he is of that confusion and perversion
which, as applied to interpretation of the New Testament, is so common as
to pass unnoticed by sermon-hearers; but which, when applied out of church,
is exposed with laughter in all subjects except theology. I shall take one
instance, putting some words in italics.

_A. B._ _Theological Critic._

My state of mind, which refers ... he proceeds to argue that
the whole _either_ to unseen he himself is outside its
intelligence, _or something sacred pale because he refers
which man has never had any all these strange phenomena to
conception of_, proves me to _unseen spiritual
be out of the pale of the intelligence_.
Royal Society.

The possibility of a _yet unimagined_ cause is insisted on in several
places. On this ground it is argued by A. B. that spiritualists are
"incautious" for giving in at once to the spirit doctrine. But, it is said,
they may be justified by the philosophers, who make the flint _axes_, as
they call them, to be the works of men, because no one can see _what else
they can be_. This kind of adoption, _condemned_ as a conclusion, is
_approved_ as a provisional theory, suggestive of direction of inquiry:
experience having shown that {205} inquiry directed by a _wrong_ theory has
led to more good than inquiry without any theory at all. All this A. B. has
fully set forth, in several pages. On it the reviewer remarks that "with
infinite satisfaction he tries to justify his view of the case by urging
that there is no other way of accounting for it; after the fashion of the
philosophers of our own day, who conclude that certain flints found in the
drift are the work of men, because the geologist does not see what else
they can be." After this twist of meaning, the reviewer proceeds to say,
and A. B. would certainly join him, "There is no need to combat any such
mode of reasoning as this, because i