The anti-religious bigotry of Positivists is quite as bitter and irrational as the theological bigotry of religious fanatics.

At present the two powers countervail and balance each other.

But, as three hundred years ago I should certainly have been burnt for a heretic, so fifty or a hundred years hence, could I live so long, I should be in equal apprehension of being burnt by some successor of Mr.Congreve, Mr.Harrison, or Professor Huxley, for presuming to believe in Providential government." "The intolerance of incredulity," returned Colonel A----, "is a sore subject with me.

I once witnessed a phenomenon which was to me quite as extraordinary as any of the 'spiritual' performances.

I have at this moment in my possession apparently irresistible evidence of the reality of what then took place; and I am sure that there exists at a point on the earth's surface, which unluckily I cannot define, strong corroborative proof of my story.