They sweep the colour, in its pure state, clean off the palette; and then profess to show us by experiment that they can get on perfectly well without it.

But they never seem to suspect that it may be mixed up with the colours they retain, and be the secret of their depth and lustre.

Let them see whether religion be not lurking there, as a subtle colouring principle in all their pigments, even a grain of it producing effects that else were quite impossible.

Let them only begin this analysis, and it will very soon be clear to them that to cleanse life of religion is not so simple a process as they seem to fancy it.

Its actual dogmas may be readily put away from us; not so the effect which these dogmas have worked during the course of centuries.