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      FRANCE , Theoi , ogicaij works are rare in France . One has been recently put forth which excites some interest : namely , he Missionaire &eion V Evangile , par M , le Comte de IV ., former Counsellor to the Parliament of P .

      This Gospel Missionary is highly praised by the Revue Encyclopedique and the Chronique Religieuse . Its object seems to be to shew what a contrast there is between a missionary actuated by the spirit of the gospel and

      the missionaries that are now trumpeting slavish doctrines , setting up hierarchical claims , and promoting the grossest superstitious practices throughout the French dominions . The author

      has put into the mouth of his missionary some fragments of sermons which were actually preached at court in the years preceding the Revolution of " 1789 .

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      Mons . H . Azais , who published some time ago a Treatise on Compensations , has published , as a sequel to it , the following : Du Sort de V Homme dans toutes les Conditions , Sec . : " On

      the Fate of Man in all Conditions ; on the Fate of Nations in all Ages ; and especially on the Fate of the French People . " He adopts the theory of a moral balance , maintained in Tucker ' s

      " Light of Nature . " According to him , a general law , that of Equilibrium , presides over the organization of the universe . The phenomenon of life , like all other phenomena , is subjected to the influence of this law . The animal is born , grows , decays < md

      dies . In order to return to the point from which it set out , it must necessarily restore to nature all that it received from her ; and the decay ( dtcroissement ) must , therefore , be in proportion to the growth . Now , all acquisition is accompanied with a sensation

      of pleasure ; all diminution , all loss , is accompanied with a sensation of suffering . The sum of painful sensations , therefore , must be perfectly equal to that of agreeable sensations . The maa who has enjoyed much , will have muck to suffer in descending to the grave -

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      he who has known but few enjoyments , will terminate his existence without extreme regret . —The author compares existence to a stone thrown into the air , which returns through exactly the same space which it passed through in

      ascending . He concludes that good and evil balance each other in the human lot , and that ,, notwithstanding the diversity of their circumstances , the result , the final balance , is always equaL

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      A Hebrew Grammar is announced , in 8 vo ., by a Professor of the College of Avignon . tmm

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      On " the speech of M . Odillon Barrot , relative to the hanging of tapestries , delivered the 27 th of November , 1819 , before the re-united sections of the Court of Repeal , under the superintendance of Mgn . le Garde-dessceaux , " the Melanges de Religion , Tom . I . pp . 44 , 45 , has the following

      critique : A passage of this remarkable speech has furnished M . de la Mennais with a subject for some very pathetic exclamations . But to indulge in these , he found misrepresentation necessary . We give the author ( M . Barrot )

      in his own words : — " I hear already certain persons exclaim , € Is the law , then , Atheistical V Yes , it is , and ought to be , if you understand by it , that the law , which only exists to controul , should be indifferent to the religious op inions

      of men , which are free from all restraint : if you understand that the civil power , which has no other aim than the protection of the persons and properties of individuals , has no interest in object ^ separated from these temporal interests , for which and by which alone it exists . '' We do not enter into the particular discussions which might arise from the

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      Notices Of Foreign Theological Literature.

      NOTICES OF FOREIGN THEOLOGICAL LITERATURE .

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      mmm ^ ^^ ' ^ ^ m A Catechism for Jewish Youth is in the latest list of Parisian publications , and is advertised with a high encomium .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1821, page 306, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2500/page/50/