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nature ? By whom edited ? Where sold ? One would like to have a copy . I was not aware that all the laws of nature were yet published . ( d ) . The facts of mesmerism are opposed to reason . Then the sooner reason shifts its position

the better . " Facts are , " as the Frenchman saicl , * brutally conclusive things , " and if facts are against Tea-son she must , as I said before , quickly shift her ground , or she is likely to be called folly . ( e ) . "Mesmerism is not supported by great

names . " Even if it were not , it would rest content with great facts . But what are we to think of the folloAving , who found nothing in mesmerism opposed to reason or science , Cloquet , Jussieu , Baron Breteuil , De La Motte , Fouquier , Husson , Teste ,

Georget , Orfila , Rostan , Hnfeland , Cuvier , Ampere , Laplace , Agassiz , Archbishop Whateley , the Bishop of Oxford , Sir Wm . Hamilton , Rev . Dr . Arnold , Dr . Gregory , Dr . Elliotson , Dr . Ashburner , Dr . Engledue , Esdaile , Wilkinson , Prof .

De Morgan , Coleridge , Sir Bulwer Lytton , and a host of others ? The Rev . George Sandby in his "Mesmerism and its Opponents" says , "And who and what are the men that have thus advocated

mesmerism ? I shall answer in the words of the celebrated French physiologist , Dr . Georget , Avho says , " it is a very astonishing thing that animal magnetism is not even known by name among the ignorant classes ; it is among the enlightened

ranks that it finds support ; ifc is men who have received some education who have taken its cause in hand ; it is partly learned men , naturalists , physicians , philosophers , Avho have composed the numerous volumes in its favour . "

Ancl now for a few practical remarks . Qui ~ bono ? What are the uses of mesmerism ? We answer boldly , they are manifold . 1 . As a curative agent when other means have failed . 2 . As showing the predominance of spirit over matter ,

consequently the existence of a ruling spirit directing and sustaining all things . There are well authenticated instances in which it has been

instrumental m convertin g men from Atheism . 3 . It helps to explain j ^ seudo-imracles and thus gives a heavy blow to superstition . 4 . It throws a brilliant light on antiquity . Such being some of the uses of mesmerism , is

it wise in us to neglect the study and the practice of this wondrous gift of God ? Nay , rather let us thankfully accept it from the " Father of Li ghts , from whom cometh down every good and every perfect gift . " Let us not captiously fling it back

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in His face , because there are some , nay many things iu it that we cannot understand . Surely ifc is ' the part of the Christian to despise none of God ' s blessings , but rather gratefully to take them from His Omnific hand , prudently to uso them , ancl carefully to transmit them to the generations that are yet unborn .

Masonic Memorials.

MASONIC MEMORIALS .

Masonic memorials abound throughout the world , but no where ore they so numerous as in this country . By the term " Masonic Memorials , " however , we would understand not merely monumental

structures erected to the memory of distinguished and valued members of our Order—creditable ancl desirable though such undoubtedly are—but those more enduring monuments which have been raised for the relief and succour of the little ones of

deceased Freemasons ; as well as the asylum in which our brethren themselves , and their widoAvs , find a refuge when poverty and old age assail them . These are the Masonic memorials in which English Freemasons may justly take a pride ; and

lone may they continue flourishing , as evidences of the vigour ancl reality of Masonic charity in our land ! The woodcut that accompanies this article is an illustration of a Celtic Memorial Cross , erected by

At LoeiEEiir , to the Memory of the late DUKE OS ATHOIS K . T ., G . ai . Bf . of Scotland .