93 .-- Ed.] [Footnote 3: P.157, 4th edit .-- Ed.] * * * * * NOTES ON NOBLE'S APPEAL.1827.

[1] How natural it is to mistake the weakness of an adversary's arguments for the strength of our own cause! This is especially applicable to Mr.
Noble's Appeal.

Assuredly as far as Mr.Beaumont's Notes are concerned, his victory is complete.
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210.
The intellectual spirit is moving upon the chaos of minds, which ignorance and necessity have thrown into collision and confusion; and the result will be a new creation.

"Nature" (to use the nervous language of an-old writer,) "will be melted down and recoined; and all will be bright and beautiful." Alas! if this be possible now, or at any time henceforward, whence came the dross?
If nature be bullion that can be melted and thus purified by the conjoint action of heat and elective attraction, I pray Mr.Noble to tell me to what name or 'genus' he refers the dross?
Will he tell me, to the Devil?
Whence came the Devil?
And how was the pure bullion so thoughtlessly made as to have an elective affinity for this Devil?
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