He picks out what he pleases of my words, and takes care to divest them of their justification.

I have (as was to be expected) met with much treatment from the religious press which I know cannot be justified; but all is slight, compared to that of which I complain from this writer.

I will presently give a few detailed instances to illustrate this.

While my charge against my assailant is essentially moral, and I cannot make any parade of charity, he can speak patronizingly of me now and then, and makes his main attacks on my _logic_ and _metaphysics_.

He says, that in writing his first book, he knew no characteristics of me, except that I was "a gentleman, a scholar, and _a very indifferent metaphysician_" At the risk of encountering yet more of banter and insult, I shall here quote what the third "Prospective Reviewer" says on this topic.