The change of form, and enlargement of design, in "The Prospective" had led me to express to one of the promoters of that object my desire to contribute.

The religious crisis is instant; but the man for it?
The next best thing, if, as I believe, he is not to be found in England, is an association of such men as are to edit the new periodical.
An address delivered by Freeman Clarke at Boston, last May, makes me think him better fitted for a leader than any other of the religious "Free-thinkers." I wish I could send you my one copy; but you do not need, it, and others do.

His object is the same as that of the "Alliance Universelle:" only he is still more free from "partialism" (his own word) in his aspirations and practical suggestions with respect to an ultimate "Christian synthesis." He so far adopts Comte's theory as to speak of religion itself under three successive aspects, historically,--1.

Thesis; 2.

Antithesis; 3.Synthesis.