nvariably the ally of the despot. Witness all European history,
witness the history of Mexico and South America,--witness the history
of the United States,--witness the present condition of Europe,
groaning under the mountain load of taxation to pay war debts, to
sustain the cannon foundries, forts, ships, barracks, and, in a word,
the _armament of hell_, for it is but a grand, prearranged plan for
further homicide and devastation; and all--all, alas! established and
sustained by a government inspired by the church, which falsely claims
to represent the principles of Christ in its terribly apostate career!

With a loathing and horror that words cannot express I turn from this
scene--in which, though latent at this moment, there lie all the
horrors of the Roman amphitheatre, and wars of the legions of Scipio,
Marius, Tiberius, Caesar, Nero, Severus, Decius, Valerianus, of Alaric,
Attila, and Genghis Khan--to the dawn of liberty, peace, and
enlightenment on the American continent, where, though old forms and
institutions may survive, their interior nature or life is
changed,--where the apostate church is slowly relinquishing its
apostacy and growing into harmony with modern liberty and progress.

The time is coming, I trust, when Christian churches in the United
States shall return to follow the sublime examples of the founders of
Christianity; shall practise and diffuse that spirit of love in which
is all freedom, all toleration and co-operation; shall welcome science
and philosophy, and become the centre of all cooperative efforts for
human amelioration.

The ameliorations of the last hundred years are so great that we may
well anticipate still greater changes in the coming century; for, as
Whittier says:

"Still the new transcends the old,
In signs and tokens manifold."

It is reasonable to anticipate this change, because the old battle
between religion and science, which placed each in a false position,
must come to an end. The battle is still in progress,--there is still
an antagonism; and scientists will object to the JOURNAL OF MAN
because its science is associated with religion; while theologians
will object to its religion because based on science; but the contest
now proceeds with diminishing rancor, and there have been minor
reconciliations or truces between scientists and theologians. But
finally the grand reconciliation must come from this, that when
science advances into the psychic realm,--when it