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    Hie remaining sermon of Constantine , it would gratify , not only the writer of this article , but I should think many of our Unitarian friends . The Royal Discourse of the Emperor is certainly a Christian antiquity , and some information concerning it , to say the least , could not fail of tending to the gratification of the theological antiquary . W . P .

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    common also to them , it will not be unacceptable to hear occasionally by letter from one whom circumstances have removed so far from them . After a stay of five weeks at Paris * we turned our faces southward , and

    passing another five weeks , with great satisfaction , between Lyons , Turin , Bologna and Florence , we arrived here just in time to witness all the ceremonies and solemnities of

    Christmas . Though the duration of Rome has been so considerable as to have dignified it with the title of the eternal city , the propriety of such an epithet is called into question at every step by the marks of ruin , desolation and

    decay . Much as I was prepared to enjoy my visit to these hallowed precincts , at once the sceue of so many early associations , and the theme of my maturer studies , it was some days before I could view with complacency

    the shattered columns of its temples or smile amidst the vestiges of departed greatness . It is too humiliating to see the Forum Romanian , the theatre of their ancient glory , degraded by the modern Romans into a common

    cattle market , and the intervals between its dilapidated walls now made the seat of beggary in its most revolting form . That feeling , however , has now subsided , the scenes are become

    familiar to me , and the mere locality of the Forum , once fully ascertained , is enough to carry back my imagination to the days of old , and to make the heroes of antiquity pass in review before me .

    The quarter of the Forum is crowded with remains . At one end is the commanding eminence of the capitol , which hath a modern edifice upon the old foundations . Immediately at the foot of it is the arch of Septimus Severus , with the remains of two colonades of temples , and one insulate *

    column in honour of one of the lite emperors . At the opposite end is the Arch of Titus , in honour of the overthrow of Jerusalem ; on the right hand you have the massive remains of the Imperial Palace , and on the opposite a chain of shattered temples , magnificent eveu in their fall .

    You have no sooner left the Forum than , at the head of the Via Smtra , yon are confronted With the Arch of Conat * nttne , a very striking and imposing

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    Sir , May 6 , 1818 . HAVING long been , and still remaining in great doubts concerning the disputes between

    materialists and immaterialists , permit me to put the following questions to both parties , the answers to which may , perhaps , in some degTee serve to discover on which sidfe the truth lies .

    1 . Do we know any thing of matter except its qualities , such as extension , colour , hardness ? &c £ Do we know any thing of mind except its qualities , such as the power of perceiving , thinking ? &c . If both these questions be answered ,

    as I imagine they must be , in the negative , I proceed to ask the immaterialist—Can you prove , that the qualities of mind are incompatible with those of matter ? And pf the materialist I inquire , Can you shew that the qualities of mind necessarily result

    from any combination of those of matter , or are necessarily connected with them ? If all these questions be , as it seems to me they must be , answered in the negative , it will then follow , that we have not yet at least sufficient data to establish the truth of either hypothesis . t . C . H .

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    Kidderminster , _ Sia , May 16 , 1818-nrUlE letter , of which you now re * JL ceive a copy , was written by a young gentleman to his relative in Kidderminster ; if you do not object , I should be happy to see it inserted ia your valuable Repository .

    H Ronie 9 Good Friday , My dear Sir , Mar . 20 , 1818 . Ttiovon separated from home by a distance of 1300 miles ; , 1 cannot ceaifte to think with frequent and affectionate regard upon the friends I have left behind . If the same sentiment * are

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1818, page 371, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2477/page/27/