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    bflity is > that Paul had / according to his usual custom , dictated to an amanuensis the preceding part , which forms the substance of the epistle ; but that he was so anxious to call the attention of the Galatians to the few remarks which he had yet to add , and which were only , in fact , a recapitulation of what he had hefore advanced , that this part was written in a different character , an < J with his own hand , in

    order that it might leave the deeper impression upon the minds of the Galatian converts : as if he had said , The sura of the whole matter is this , and , that what I now subjoin may attract the more attention , ' and come with greater effect ^ you will obs erve , that it is not only written in a larger character , to distinguish it from what goes before , but that I have deviated from my usual practice , and written it with my own hand .

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    > Lttnddn Unitarian Book Society . 1 January 20 , 1825 . IT may not perhaps be knoVvu to the Unitarian public , that this Society has for some years past been in rather a declining condition , and

    doing- much less for the benefit of the general cause than such an Institution in the Metropolis might be thought capable of effecting . This is not to be attributed to any defect in its

    original constitution , or to the vviant of intelligence and zeal in those wha , at successive periods , have taken an active part in the management of its affairs . The evil probably originated in the success of the Institution , and

    has been increasing by almost imperceptible degrees from circumstances whiqh it was perhaps impossible to controuh The worthy and venerable founders of the Society , in the year 1791 , thought and felt that €€ rational Christians had been too cautious of

    publicly acknowledging their principles ;* ' they deemed it €€ high time for the friends of genuine Christianity to stand forth and avow themselves ;" and they anticipated the best effects

    as to " freedom of inquiry , liberal discussion , and the fearless profession of principles embraced after due examination , which can be formidable to nothing but to error and vice , " * from the establishment of the association

    they projected , for the distribution of such books as were adapted to * promote Christian knowledge and the practice of virtue / ' The event proved that they had not miscalculated upon the consequences of their proceedings . The spirit which actuated them was instantly communicated to other parts

    of the country , and in the followingyear a society upon the same plan , and contemplating similar objects , was formed in the West of England * Subsequently to that period , numerous other societies , having the same general design , have been established in every division of Great Britain .

    When the London Society was instituted , few books were to be obtained suited to its purpose , and it was under the necessity of printing what it wanted for its own circulation ; and its funds were therefore applied to the

    * Preamble to the Rules of the Unitarian Society .

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    Loughborough , Sm , January 17 * 1825 . ; IN the Rev . C . Wellbeloved ' s translation of the Bible , there is a note describing papyrus as € S a plant peculiar to the banks of the Nile . " Exod . ii . 3 . Pliny says it grew in Syria , in the Jordan . Bruce , before he went into Egypt , saw it there , between the situation of the ancient city of Paneas and the Lake of Tiberias . Guilandinus

    tells us it grew at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates . * Strabo describes the papyrus as inhabiting * Egypt and India . There is a species in Sicily and Calabria unfit for the manufacture of

    paper , and differing from the famous one of Egypt . M . Poivre speaks of a still different one growing in Madagascar .-f Setting aside all consideration of the species found in Calabria , Sicily and Madagascar , we have the authority of Strabo , Pliny , Guilandinus and Bruce , that the papyrus of Egypt grew in Syria and India , as well as in the river Nile . W . PARKINSON .

    * Brace's Travels . + Encyclopaedia Britannica , art . Papyrus .

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    FTabitats of the Papyrus . —London Unitttrian Booh Society . 81

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1825, page 31, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2532/page/31/