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    ances respecting this spring , of which perhaps one of your readers , versed in Natural History , can com , municate a further account * HYDROPHILUS .

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    Mrs . Cappe , on the Adaptation of Divine Retielation to the Human Mind . 2 §

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    Sir , SOMETIME ago I copied the following paragraph from Ware ' s Cumberland Pacquet , dated 21 st Feb . 1815 , a choice thing for the 19 th century .

    " The Archbishop of Cashel has refused to consecrate { at the instance of Lady Caher ) the new Church erected at Caher , in Ireland , on account of its not being built due East and West as the Canon requires ; it is a well finished piece of Grecian architecture . "

    I have been puzzled to find out what can be done with the church $ but having lately observed that a strong disposition has manifested

    itself among the natives , to resist the tithes , it has occurred to me that it may serve as barracks , that the privileges of the Clergy may be protected by the soldiery . ¦ ' W . D .

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    With the greatest interest the elaborate work of the excellent Dr . Gogan , and I am-induced to send you a few reflections suggested by that work , and by some other recent publications which if not further illustrative of

    some of the subjects on which they treat , may not perhaps be deemed wholly irrelevant . * What at this hour Mr . Editor , is the state of those countries in respect of religion who do not possess the scriptures ? What is the

    still more deplorable state of those where they are set at nought , or ridiculed , or despised , or miserably obscured and debased by the most bigoted , abject , superstition ? Let a great neighbouring nation give the answer . But we will not exact it of

    them . Alas ! it may be read in that total demoralization which has infected all ranks of men among tnem ; We may read it in the frivolous amusements , the ferocious vindictive passions , the never-ceasing round of

    trifling , seductive dissipation which makes shipwreck of all sober reflection , of every virtuous sentiment and of every patriotic , benevolent or useful pursuit . C . C . J

    On the striking adaptation of the leading objects of divine revelation to the kjiown phenomena of the human mind , as contradistinguished to that of the inferior animals , demonstrating the strong presumptive evidence arising from thence , that both have the same great and good Being for their Author .

    It appears that the following are the great primary outlines of distinction between the human race and the various tribes of inferior animals placed below them . 1 . The power of discriminating between virtue and vice , and of making their election accordingly $ from whence arises human responsibility .

    2 nd . In that comprehension of mind which is capable of looking forward beyond the present to the future , and of regulating their actions according to certain , or even highly probable remote consequences . 3 rd . In the power of deliberating

    * See an excellent Sermon on the Religious and Mojarimprovenient of Mankind , preached at Leeds , in June last , by tbe Rev . 3 Charles Wellbeloved . longtnau »» d Co . London .

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    Mrs . Cappe , on the Adaptation ofDi vine Revelation to the Human Mind York , Dec . 6 th , 181 £ . Sir ,

    REJOICE to see the subject of I the British and Foreign School Society warmly advocated by a much respected writer in your liberal Magazine [ x . 614 . ] for I cannot but consider that excellent institution , and its

    no less illustrious sister , the British and Foreign Bible Society , as the brightest luminaries of the European firmament , at this time in many other respects sufficiently dark and gloomy . This darkness , however , is not to be

    ascribed to the want of many excellent writers , who have given the most clear , comprehensive and consolatory views of the government and . providence of God , and especially of his goodness and parental care as from time to time developedin the writings of the Old and New Testament , and

    more particularly in their striking adaptation to the mental progress and the peculiar situation and circumstances of the long series of generations to whom they were successively vouchsafed . In this view I haw lately perused

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1816, page 29, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2448/page/29/