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names pleaded in behalf of a system in no respect entitled to such protection."

Of the unscrupulous use by these writers of the vulgarest arts of sophistry, we need say nothing. Enormous examples of petitio principii, suppressio veri, and almost every other species of logical delinquency, have been given in preceding articles, or in the present. But examples of all will be found in Number Ninety itself; that singular monument-not are perennius certainly, for it is "brass" itself-of logical pettifogging.

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tells us, suppose that our blessed Lord is, as it were, throughout the inspired writings, hiding and concealing himself, and going about (if I may so speak reverently) seeking to whom he may disclose himself." There are numberless passages of this kind, which may mean any thing the interpreter is pleased to imagine; although in reality they contain nothing but very pioussounding nonsense, which would have been quite in character in Jacob Böhmen or Emanuel Swedenborg.

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Thus, "so to speak," and "as it were," We question, however, whether these the author often seems to say something, writers have not derived still more service when in reality, and without any from that obscure, imposing, and truly speak" or "as it were," he says nothing. Delphic style, of which, as Archbishop His style perpetually reminds us of BarWhately says, the "effect is to convey at dolph's explanation of the word accommofirst to ordinary readers a striking impres- dated. "Accommodated; that is, when a sion, with an appearance of being perfectly man is, as they say, accommodated; or, intelligible at the first glance, but to become when a man is-being-whereby-he may more obscure and doubtful at the second be thought to be accommodated; which is glance, and more and more so, the more at an excellent thing.' tentively it is studied by a reader of clear Should any be disposed to charge us understanding; so as to leave him utterly with treating grave subjects over-lightly, in doubt, at the last, which of several we have to reply, first, that we sincerely be meanings it is meant to convey, or whether lieve that this is just one of those cases in any at all." *This is especially which the maxim of Horace applies, the case with the tracts on "Reserve" and "Mysticism," of which it may be truly said that they seem to have been written after preferring, and obtaining, a plenary answer to that prayer

"Of darkness visible so much be lent,

"Ridiculum acri

Fortius et melius magnas plerumque secat res;"

secondly, that we recommend the objectors to a careful perusal of the Eleventh of Pascal's Lettres Provinciales, in which he As half to show-half vail the deep intent." shows Qu'on peut réfuter par des railleries les erreurs ridicules; thirdly, that amongst The one writer is most "reserved on the Christian privileges of which our opporeserve," and the other most "mystical on nents would deprive us, we trust they do mysticism." Seldom is any thing said not intend to include what Ben Jonson calls plainly and absolutely, but with a perpet- our "Christian liberty of laughing" at ually tortuous and guarded expression. what is laughable; fourthly, that if they Scarcely two sentences are found together would have us repress our mirth, it must be without a 66 so to speak," or as it were," by exhibiting a system of doctrines less iror "if so be," or "it may be after a cer- resistibly comic; and lastly, that we are tain secret manner," &c. Thus, endeavor- perfectly aware that the artifice of inculing to prove our Lord's systematic conceal-cating an awful and reverential manner" ment of his miracles, the writer on "re- of treating absurdities such as those on serve" says of the feeding of the five which we have animadverted, is the apthousand, even here it would appear as if proved receipt, as the history of all superthere was somehow a sort of secret character stition shows, of sanctifying, in the estima about the miracle." Another specimen. tion of the timid and the credulous, the "Notwithstanding that a spirit of true cha- most enormous deviations from truth and rity has a natural desire to communicate common sense. Nor is it amongst the itself, and is of all things the most expan- least causes of the disgust we have felt in sive and extending, yet in all such cases perusing the writings of this School, that [of good men] we may still perceive the their authors, even while propounding docindwelling of Christ in them, still seeking, trines which are equally insulting to the as it were, to hide himself; for I think they Bible and to human reason, and defending are all marked by an inclination, as far as them by methods which are disgraceful to it is possible, of retiring and shrinking morality, have yet been able to maintain from public view." "The Fathers," he that sanctimonious air, that pious gravity, VOL. II. No. III. 25

which distinguish certain writers of the school of Loyola.

CLEVERNESS.

A TALE BY MRS. S. C. HALL.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal.

We must not conclude without pointing out to the reader the works which, in our judgment, furnish the best confutation of the tenets of the Oxford School. These ful village than East-court; its fine old manor

It would be difficult to picture a more delightare, Archbishop Whately's Essays on the house, combining the architecture of half a dozKingdom of Christ, (a truly admirable en reigns, bound together by ivy, the growth of work;) Goode's Rule of Faith, which is at least two centuries; its straggling grotesque learned and full; M'Ilvaine's Rome and houses, with high gables and tall chimneys, Oxford, and Taylor's Ancient Christianity-fenced along the road by broad yew hedges, cut of both of which we have already spoken; peacocks, and arches, where small birds had here and there into various patterns-owls, and and Mr. Lindsay Alexander's learned and nested time out of mind. able work, just published, entitled AngloCatholicism not Apostolical.

Meantime we await the progress and issue of the great contest without apprehension. Terrible as are these hurricanes

of controversy, pernicious as may be their immediate effects on the faith of some and the femper of many-they serve from time to time to purify the atmosphere, and render it salubrious. Let us but be true to ourselves, and we have no fear lest we should be "re-involved," to use the strong language of Milton, "in that pitchy cloud of infernal darkness, in which we shall never more see the sun of Divine Truth again, never hope for the cheerful dawn, never more hear the bird of morning sing.' Let us never forget that Christianity was planted, and has grown up, in storms. Discussion is always favorable to it, and has ever been so. Let the wintry blast come. It will but scatter the sere leaves, and snap off the withered branches; the giant tree will only strike its roots deeper into the soil, and in the coming spring-time put forth a richer foliage and extend a more grateful shade.

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Yes; East-court was a pleasant village. There was, in the centre of a sort of common green that flanked one side, a pond, large enough to entitle it to the dignity of being termed "a lake." But the people of East-court having isfied that the pond should be simply called a originally been an unambitious race, were satpond-and a beautiful pond it was. Two noble willows extended their branches nearly to the water's midst, and a clump of mingled holly, and tapering feathery birch, was so beautiful in its growth and color, that an artist once came ten of the "Three Bee-Hives" repeated several miles to sketch it; a fact which the old landlord times each day of his life, forgetting altogether, good old soul, that every one in East-court was aware of a circumstance so flattering to the beauty of their long-loved home. The cottages at East-court were so disposed, as to add to the brown erections; the walls as white as lime and effect of the larger dwellings-pretty white and labor could make them; and the dark-brown thatch nearly covered by those sweet and beautiful climbers which belong of right to the cottage homes of England. On the very summit of an abrupt conical hill, that sprung up suddenly at the back of the manor-house, was a windsails; and at the foot of the hill on the other side, mill, with wide-extended arms and snow-white guarded by some venerable trees, stood Eastcourt church with the adjoining parsonage house. There were but few shops at East-court, for the village was only three miles from the country town. But the very shops partook of the picturesque character of this truly English THE AERIAL MACHINE.-"What think ye, Tam hamlet; and many persons declared that there mas, o' this new faughet project o' fleein through never was so quiet, so venerable, and yet, withthe air like a wild duck; is'na it a maist extraoral, so cheerful a village as East-court, or, as the dinary thing, man?" Naething vera startlin' about it ava, Archie. Auld as I am, I expect to Hill.” very old people called it, "East-court o' the live to see the day ween, wi' a wee steam-engine aneath my oxter, and a pennyworth o' coals in my coat pouch, I mak a tripe to Kalmarneock, and

It might well be a cheerful village; the gentleman who resided in the manor-house was a come back within half an hour! Wonderfu' ! nae- magistrate, and landlord of every adjacent dwellthing would surprise me noo-a-days, gift it warena ing. He was, in all acts of love and charity, a an advertisement frae the man in the moon, o' second Sir Roger de Coverley; and had a furnished lodgings to let, or a project to a big half-brother, a physician, who had one wing of the way house atween his domicile and the yerth."-old manor-house fitted up as a surgery and dis

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pensary; but he never took fee for advice, or payment for medicine, from any human being; feeling--at least so it would appear, from the alacrity with which he dispensed both-that he was under particular obligation to all who took his prescriptions, and was never happy after a baby was born in the parish until it was vaccinated. It was rare indeed, to meet with such

men as the squire and his good brother. Well | prevented its accomplishment; leaving town might East-court be the very paradise of Eng-where they were nobodies, to reside in the counlish villages. I have said nothing of the rector; try, where they hoped to be "somebodies;" at but certainly, unless he had carefully labored the very least, laboring to acquire conversable in, and pruned and trimmed his vineyard, the knowledge of abstruse sciences, not being parold would not have descended to their graves ticular who approved, as long as approbation with such hope and humility, nor would the was bestowed; unable to persevere to the young have lived together in such peace and amount of being informed, and yet having a good will. For the rest, a dancing, music, and smattering of every thing. Bating this eager a species of drawing master, who combined thirsting after admiration-not after science for drawing and writing together, made each the its own noble sake, but for the gaping admiration round of the neighborhood once a-week: thus of the many-the family were kindly, cheerful, the simple-minded people imagined that the and hospitable people; not selfish, either, in means of a polite education" were safely se- their pursuits, but willing to inform others. cured to their children; and the village school | Three or four self-thinking inhabitants of Eastwas under the immediate dominion of the parish-court agreed with Mr. Russel and his brother in clerk and his wife, and endowed in every way their rational estimate of the new family; but by the lord of the manor, so that the peasant the many opened wide their mouths, and gave class were considered well provided for as to their "most sweet voices" in applause. The their sources of information. I could say a Diggonses were pronounced to be the most " talgreat deal more in favor of East-court and its ented people in England!" Science has many inhabitants as they were about fifteen years ago, triflers in her train; and certainly amongst them but perhaps have detailed enough to create an she numbered every member of the Diggons interest for them, and may be permitted to pass family; from Mr. Diggons, who trifled with all on to the day on which a story connected with the sciences, down to pretty little pale Elizabeth, its inhabitants may be considered to open. who sighed and smiled over a miniature galvanic battery.

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"Yes, your honor," replied Isaac bowing; "a lady and gentleman, Mr. and Mrs. Diggons by name, three young masters, two young misses (doll-looking young things), seven servants, a tutor and a governess."

"Diggons," repeated the squire, who had a little leaning towards aristocratic names; "Diggons; it is not an old name, Isaac, though it may belong to respectable people."

A new family, a rich and respectable family, did you say, Isaac, wanting the Deerstone house, On the left hand side of the village, commandwhere Mr. Rowley died ?" inquired squire Rus- ing a view of the green, the huge pond, and the sel of East-court, of his land-steward Isaac Hey-picturesque cottages beyond, was a pretty cheerwood. ful-looking house; "happy" you would have called it, for inanimate things can be so placed, so garnished, as to look happy. The draperies within the windows were of white muslin trimmed with blue silk lace and fringe; and the trelliswork outside was almost concealed by the wreaths of flowers that owed their luxuriance and beauty to much care and a warm southern aspect. There was an ample bow window and several other long narrow ones, that seemed playing hide-and-seek among the roses and myrtles that were always in blow; and the chimneys were tall and square, and the gables very high. There was also a conservatory, and you could see that, besides plants, it contained several birds of splendid plumage. In short, the outward appearance of the dwelling combined so much that was tasteful and expensive, the looker-on was assured there was both wealth and taste within the latter, keeping the former in subjection.

"Certainly, sir; he's a fine gentleman, and wears chains and rings; a fine gentleman, and has (his man says) a great library, for his lady is very clever; indeed, his man says, they are an extraordinary clever family."

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"We never, I think, had a family of that description, Isaac, in the village," answered Mr. Russel, after a pause. "I cannot say I like people who appear more clever than their neighbors. However, this is perhaps a prejudice, and we should guard against prejudices. We will look into the references."

The references were looked into, and Mr. Diggons was found an eligible tenant for Deerstone. The arrival of the "clever family" occasioned more than the ordinary commotion, for they brought with them various things that the good people of the village had only heard of in an obscure manner-chemical apparatus, electrifying machines, various astronomical instruments; in short, some of the older and simpler people regarded Mr. Diggons very much in the light of a necromancer, and the small, pale, acute-faced tutor as his familiar-something or other which they did not like to name.

When every thing was settled, and every one got used to every thing, Mr. Russel and his brother, Mr. Graham Russel, agreed that the Diggonses were a good set of people, eaten up with a desire to be celebrated, which of course

This house had the quaint name of East-inRest, why, I know not, and no one at East-court seemed to think it strange. It was almost as large, and of the same date as the manor-house, and had been, time out of mind, inhabited by the same family, once as numerous as honorable, but now dwindled down to a widow and two children-a boy and girl. The lady was still lovely, her children beautiful; the boy, tall, fair, and handsome, but whose movements partook of the irregularity and languor of ill, or at least delicate health; the girl was also fair and delicate, but with an energy and decision of character marking every movement, that deceived even her mother as to her bodily strength. When the "clever family" came to reside at Deerstone, Alfred Erris was nearly seven, and Lucy between eight and nine; and as the two children clung together, gazing at the evolutions

of a good-natured macaw, who invariably exercised himself to amuse them, Mrs. Diggons might almost be excused, when returning Mrs. Erris's visit, for the encomiums she injudiciously passed on their beauty.

"Well, Mrs. Erris, you may certainly be proud of their beauty," she exclaimed; "I never saw two such darlings-loves-quite. I should so like my son Robert to paint them; he does such charming things. There is no doubt but if he chose, he could be an R. A. in three months."

"Alfred draws a little," said Mrs. Erris.

"A little!" repeated Mrs. Diggons. "My dear lady, at his age Robert copied the cartoons; but I do not wonder at your spoiling such angels. I assure you I had plenty of struggles with myself ere I could make my boys and girls work. I lost the flower of the flock about five years ago-died, sweet child, in six days of brain fever! A wonderful memory he had, poor darling; could repeat poetry for two hours by my watch, when only eight years old." It never occurred to Mrs. Erris that this killed him; but she said that though Alfred could not do that, he, too, had an excellent memory.

"Which," said the lady, "you must work. Memory, of all things, must be cultivated; but I do not wonder at your spoiling such an angel." Mrs. Erris assured her that she did not" spoil" him, and in proof thereof, asserted that he could repeat a great number of Watts's hymns.

"Watts's hymns!" answered Mrs. Diggons. with an irreverent sneer at the purest child-poetry in any language, living or dead; "such a creature as that should be able to repeat orations from Shakspeare and Milton."

"In time," said Mrs. Erris, making a secret resolve that he should do so immediately, and beginning to think that she had really neglected his education.

"Is he fond of the languages?" continued the lady.

"He has commenced Latin, and learnt French and English together orally, I may say," replied the abashed mother.

"Only commenced Latin!" exclaimed Mrs. Diggons in a compassionate tone. "Well, to be sure, he will never want it, as they say; but I should have an ambition to see such a noble creature as that 'far on' in every thing; but, perhaps, if he is not much advanced in languages, he is well up' in the sciences."

"Well, well," ejaculated the lady; "I can perfectly understand Dr. Russel's prejudice; he has arrived at that time of life when men look at improvements suspiciously, because they are not of their time. He is an old man ; and if I had minded our family physician even in poor Elizabeth's case, ma'am, she'd have been a disgrace to me; that unhappy curve in her spine, he declared arose from her sitting so closely to the harp, and she was obliged to recline; but during the three years she laid upon a slightly inclined plane, she never missed a single lesson, nor did I yield her any indulgence-never suffered her to have an amusing book. 'No,' I said to the physician; 'since she cannot go on with the harp, she shall be remarkable at something else; that was my ambition, to have remarkable children. Her nature was soft and gentle, but we hardened it with mathematics and algebra."

This, at the moment, startled Mrs. Erris. She thought of the deformed girl, and her pale, anxious, thoughtful face, from which every ray of joy seemed banished. She had struck her, at first, as being the only one of this "clever family" who was not superficial. Such had been her first impression. But, Mrs. Diggons's manner was imposing in more senses than one; and the timid, retiring mother, who had really done her duty by not overtasking, and yet sufficiently exercising the infant intellect of her children, felt bitter self-reproach while her new neighbor enumerated the acquirements of her offspring, without calling to mind that one of them had fallen a victim to brain fever, while another was deformed for life.

Alfred and Lucy Erris were invited to spend a day with the family at Deerstone; and--instead of the canter on the pony, the race on the upland lawn, the whoop and merry play, which is the healthy relaxation of healthful children, and which they had expected with an interest which was a pleasure in itself--there was a grand show-off of science, a parade of hard names, a display of precocious understanding, or rather its distorted shadow, which rendered Alfred and Lucy uncomfortable, and Alfred for the first time in his life thoughtful of display, and straining after effect which rendered him unnatural. Mrs. Erris, who dined there, felt thoroughly ashamed of her children. One young Diggons painted, another excelled in languages, another made crude poetry, which, though correct in numbers, was without idea; Mrs. Erris was a timid, gentle woman, very and as to the "ologies," hard words, and paranxious for her children, and fearful lest they rotted sentences, there was no end of them! should grow to think she had not done her duty. Poor Mrs. Erris wondered why she had suffered "Indeed," she replied, blushing, "he hardly her beautiful boy--who looked like a Grecian knows the meaning of the word. His taste leads statue amid plaster and rough stone images— him to study; but my good friend, Doctor Gra- to display his ignorance, and innately resolved ham Russel, says his brain is already too large, to adopt Mr. Diggons's plan, and abridge his and insists so much on air and exercise, and hours of relaxation and exercise, that he might out-door amusements, that my dear boy is back-" make the most of time"-a duty doubtless; ward, rather, in absolute study; not that he is ignorant; he knows the names of all the trees and flowers, the"

"The botanical names?" mildly suggested Mrs. Diggons.

"No; the homely English names and their uses," replied the widow; "remember, he is only seven years old.”

but let how the most can be made of this gold from God be ascertained, before the vainest and most injurious of all vain glories, that of making "show-children," is attempted.

In accordance with her determination, Mrs. Erris dismissed her son's tutor (whom Mr. Diggons had pronounced "merely a classic") for one who was "classical and scientific"-a hard

stern man, with an iron constitution; and directed Lucy's governess to "keep her at work"

his peculiarities was his being unable to persevere in any thing like coldness towards a lady.

"I wanted you to dine with me tomorrow, my good friend," she said; "indeed I wished our lord of the manor to come also, but he has re ceived me so strangely, that I had not the courage to ask him.”

not be able to avoid finding fault, one of the bad habits common to old friends: so that, perhaps, under these circumstances, it is better for us to stay away."

under the tutor's direction. There was no difficulty in making these children study--no difficulty in getting them to rise in the morning; their docile and intelligent minds were open to receive and fertile to produce. In natural capabilities, they were far superior to their showy "We are two old-fashioned old men, my dear neighbors; and their moral and thinking quali- Mrs. Erris," replied the doctor; "but somehow ties were far beyond those of Mr. Diggons's off-you have got new-fangled of late, and we should spring. Alfred was indeed a boy of the noblest qualities, entering into the spirit of history, comprehending and analyzing, idealizing, too, until his dry hot hand, flushed cheek, and throbbing brow, would have warned any teacher of feeling and observation that it was time to lay by the book and the pen, and away into the bright fields, and among the joy-giving and health-giving beauties of nature. And yet this tutor loved the boy; he delighted in him, because he delighted in learning, and because he felt no expressed fatigue in poring over the world of knowledge, which delighted him more and more every day. He knew that he was the only son of an ancient house, and that much depended on him; and he thought how fine it would be to see him carry the highest honors at Oxford-to feel that he would be more distinguished by his talents and his learning, than by the ordinary position he would hold in society by virtue of his family and his wealth.

"I know what you mean," answered Mrs. Erris gently; "you allude to Albert and Lucy. I want you to come and judge for yourself; want you to see how they are improved; that, in fact, is all I desire. I want you to examine the children of your old friend, and I think you will be satisfied that I have done my duty."

"I am quite satisfied you have intended to do your duty, my dear lady; quite satisfied of that; and if it had not been for the stimulus given to your maternal vanity by the arrival of this clever family,' I am certain you would have continued blessing and being blessed; not overtasking, but permitting your children's minds as well as their bodies to strengthen while they grow; but we shall not agree upon the matter, my dear Mrs. Erris, so perhaps we had better not talk of it; we shall certainly not agree upon the subject."

"And Mr. Salon does regulate it," said the mother.

Lucy was with her brother in all his tasks, taming down her wildness of spirits to assist his labors, and stimulating his exertions, which "You were the friend my poor husband valwere any thing but childish. The "clever fam-ued most on earth," said Mrs. Erris, after a ily" were a fair example of the fashion and dis- pause; "and I cannot bear that you should laplay of information; their minds even were not bor under any false impression. I assure you half drawn into the exertion; they imitated neither Lucy nor Albert are ever driven to their rather than labored. This was particularly the tasks." case with the healthier portion of the family, "So much the worse for children of their who, like their parents, were superficial; but rapid yet delicate natures. If they had a disinAlbert and Lucy had hearts, feelings, and inclination to study, it would prove that their inditellect of the finest texture, an intense love of vidual minds were not of a quality to injure study, an appreciation of the beautiful, a desire their bodies; but the zeal for study requires to to excel, which, being once awakened, never be regulated." again slept. They were precisely the children whose minds should have been strengthened rather than taxed, and whose bodies should have been invigorated by air, exercise, and much rest. Mrs. Erris, astonished at their progress, which she was vain enough to exhibit to the Diggonses, partly from gratitude that they had roused her to urge forward her children, was so delighted at the rapidity with which Albert mastered every difficulty, that she desired to make Dr. Russel confess that she was right and he was wrong, as to the management of her son especially. Since the commencement of her new system, she had but one conversation on the "But," urged Mrs. Erris, "you are arguing as subject with him, and that had certainly left a if my children were suffering from too much painful impression on both their minds. She mental exertion. I assure you the contrary is framed, however, some trifling excuse for call- decidedly the case; they are full of life, full of ing at the manor house; and after a brief inter-energy. Mrs. Diggons said she never saw any view with the squire, who had been so much thing in her children like the energy with which annoyed at her obliging her son to forego his my children apply."

"By increasing it," replied the doctor. "The structure of these precocious minds is easily disorganized. It has always seemed to me as extraordinary as unjust, that parents and teachers bestow double the pains upon what are termed clever children to what they do upon those who are dull of comprehension; whereas the heavier minds could be wrought with decidedly more safety, and in nine cases out of ten would produce, if not a richer, certainly a more abundant fruitage."

pony exercise to devote more time to study, "I dare say she did not," replied the doctor. that he was cold and even stately to the widow" In the first place, your tutor imparts knowledge, of one he had loved like his own child, she sought the doctor in his favorite conservatory. The doctor was cold enough also, but one of

not its semblance; and in the next, your children have really a panting after information, a gasping for the beautiful and the ideal, a natu

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