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The proper use of reasoning is to produce opinion,--and if the subject in which you wish to produce the opinion is diseased, you must adapt the medicine accordingly.' To all which Lancelot, with several strong curses, scrawled the following answer:-- 'And this is my Cousin Luke!--Well, I shall believe henceforward that there is, after all, a thousand times greater moral gulf fixed between Popery and Tractarianism, than between Tractarianism and the extremest Protestantism.

My dear fellow,--I won't bother you, by cutting up your charming ambiguous middle terms, which make reason and reasoning identical, or your theory that the office of reasoning is to induce opinions--( the devil take opinions, right or wrong--I want facts, faith in real facts!)--or about deifying the intellect-- as if all sound intellect was not in itself divine light--a revelation to man of absolute laws independent of him, as the very heathens hold.

But this I will do--thank you most sincerely for the compliment you pay us Cismontane heretics.