He has our entire sympathy when he says, "It is my business to take care, if I walk _from time to eternity_, that I walk by that light which satisfies my own understanding.

If it were true that any of you would take my place, _if we should eventually find ourselves at the bar of God_, and I should find myself to be made answerable for the opinions which I entertain, or for beliefs which I had in time, if any of you, or all of you, would take my place, and answer for me, then I might be content to take your opinions, then I might stand on the side of the world: but what does it matter to me what Newton believed, what Locke believed, or what the world believes, unless the world will answer for me if I believe as the world believes ?" But while the right of inquiry is frankly admitted, it can scarcely be denied that the mind may be biased by prejudice and involved in error; and the ultimate question is, not, what are your opinions?
but, what are the grounds on which they rest ?--not, what is your belief?
but, what is the truth?
Mr.Holyoake is the Coryphaeus of his party.

As a popular writer and speaker, his talents and zeal, devoted to a better cause, might have fitted him for extensive usefulness, and rendered him a benefactor to his country.

As it is, no man in England rests under a heavier load of responsibility.

He has placed himself at the head of the _propaganda_ of popular infidelity.