Nor is this fatal moral epidemic confined to our continental neighbors: there is too much reason to fear that it has infected, to some extent, the artisans of our own manufacturing towns, and even, in some quarters, the inhabitants of our rural districts.

The Communists of France have their analogues in the Socialists of Britain; and the periodical press, although for the most part sound, or at least innocuous, has lent its aid to the dissemination of the grossest infidelity which the Continent has produced.

The "Leader" gives forth Lewes's version of Comte's Philosophy; and the "Glasgow Mechanics' Journal," a digest of his Law of Human Progress, which is essentially atheistic.[27] Nor is indigenous Atheism wanting.

Mr.Mackay in his "Progress of the Intellect," Atkinson and Martineau in their "Letters on the Laws of Man's Nature and Development," and Mr.G.Holyoake in "The Reasoner," have sufficiently proved that if Atheism be an exotic, it is capable of taking root and growing up in the land of Bacon, Newton, and Boyle.
FOOTNOTES: [2] BUDDAEI, "Theses Theologicae de Atheismo et Superstitione," cap.

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[3] J.C.WOLFIUS, "De Atheismi falso Suspectis." [4] BUDDAEI, "Theses Theologicae," cap.III., "De dogmatibus quae cum Atheismo conjuncta sunt, aut ad eum ducunt," p.