will deal with synthesis."

[2] Professor Cocker's work on "Christianity and Creek Philosophy," should
also be mentioned.

[3] James Foster has a sermon on "The Advantages of a Revelation," in
which he declares that, at the time of Christ's coming, "just notions of
God were, in general, erased from the minds of men. His worship was
debased and polluted, and scarce any traces could be discerned of the
genuine and immutable religion of nature."

[4] John Locke, in his "Reasonableness of Christianity," says that when
Christ came "men had given themselves up into the hands of their priests,
to fill their heads with false notions of the Deity, and their worship
with foolish rites, as they pleased; and what dread or craft once began,
devotion soon made sacred, and religion immutable." "In this state of
darkness and ignorance of the true God, vice and superstition held the
world." Quotations of this sort might be indefinitely multiplied. See an
article by the present writer, in the "Christian Examiner," March, 1857.

[5] Mosheim's Church History, Vol. I. Chap. I.

[6] Neander, Church History, Vol. I. p. 540 (Am. ed.).

[7] Essays and Reviews, Article VI.

[8] In this respect the type has changed.

[9] The actual depth reached in the St. Louis well, before the enterprise
was abandoned, was 3,8431/2 feet on August 9, 1869. This well was bored
for the use of the St. Louis County Insane Asylum, at the public expense.
It was commenced March 31, 1866, under the direction of Mr. Charles H.
Atkeson. At the depth of 1,222 feet the water became saltish, then
sulphury. The temperature of the water, at the bottom of the well, was
105 deg.F. Toward the end of the work it seemed as if the limit of the
strength of wood and iron had been reached. The poles often broke at
points two or three thousand feet down. "Annual Report (1870) of the
Superintendent of the St. Louis County Insane Asylum."

[10] Andrew Wilson ("The Ever-Victorious Army, Blackwood, 1868") says that
"the Chinese people stand unsurpassed, and probably unequalled, in regard
to the possession of freedom and self-government." He denies that
infanticide is common in China. "Indeed," says he, "there is nothing a
Chinaman dreads so much as to die childless. Every Chinaman desires to
have as large a family as possible; and the labors of female children are
very profitable."

[11] Quoted by Mr. Meadows, who warrants the correctness of the account.
"The Chinese and their R