It is conducted by men of well-known talent.
"The _Contemporaneo_ (Contemporary) is a journal of progress, but tempered, as the good and wise think best, in conformity with the will of our best of princes, and the wants and expectations of the public....
"Through discussion it desires to prepare minds to receive reforms so soon and far as they are favored by the law of _opportunity_.
"Every attempt which is made contrary to this social law must fail.

It is vain to hope fruits from a tree out of season, and equally in vain to introduce the best measures into a country not prepared to receive them." And so on.

I intended to have translated in full the programme, but time fails, and the law of opportunity does not favor, as my "opportunity" leaves for London this afternoon.

I have given enough to mark the purport of the whole.

It will easily be seen that it was not from the platform assumed by the _Contemporaneo_ that Lycurgus legislated, or Socrates taught,--that the Christian religion was propagated, or the Church, was reformed by Luther.