ight; they say, these mountains are many thousand
miles high, and are situated in the middle of our earth; they say, our
earth is flat and triangular, having seven stories, each one of peculiar
beauty, having its own inhabitants, and each one having a sea. The first
story of earth, they say, is composed of _honey_, the second is composed
of _sugar_, the third of _butter_, the fourth of _wine_; and the whole
thing is carried upon the heads of elephants, and when these shake
themselves earthquakes are produced. Among the astronomical calculations
which confirm all this there are accounts of floods of waters rising to
the Polar star. How is that for a flood?

Infidel, if you read this, and remember that you have been guilty of
foisting the Vedas against the Hebrew Scriptures, hide your face and do it
no more. The Hindoos worship cats and monkeys and holy bulls and sticks
and stones. They are yet sacrificing their infants in that sacred river,
_Ganges_. The car of Juggernaut, 'tis said, is yet rolling on its bloody
wheels, and women are yet burned upon the dead bodies of their husbands.
What is the trouble with those unfortunates? Well, they enjoy freedom from
the Bible, freedom from the Bible God, and freedom from the Protestant and
Catholic clergy--the freedom that the infidels of the United States concern
themselves so much about. Give them what they plead for and it will not be
long until they will have more hell than they will love or worship.
Infidels boast of the worth of the writings of Confucius and the religion
of the Chinese. Let us look after their condition. Here it is, as given in
the Universal Vocabulary. As they are esteemed by unbelievers so ancient
as to put to shame all others pretending to antiquity, we must be allowed
to make the test of their religious and scientific tree by its fruits.
First. "If a person be suspected of treason he is put to death in a slow
and painful manner, all his relations in the first degree are beheaded,
his female relations sold into slavery, and all his connections residing
in his house are put to death. If a physician treat the case of a patient
in any way different from established rules, and the patient dies, he is
treated as guilty of homicide, though, if on his trial it be shown that it
was a mere error, he is redeemed from death, but must quit his practice
forever. When a debtor is unable to meet the demand of his creditor he
receives thirty blows, and the same number may