ustible bodies would burn in it as brilliantly as ever. Dr.
Richardson considers that, while the gas is in contact with the
tissues or blood of a warm-blooded animal, some quality
essential to its life-supporting power is lost. The subject is
an interesting and important one, and deserves a more thorough
investigation."

JENNIE COLLINS has passed on to her reward above. It would be wrong to
neglect mentioning the remarkable career of this devoted woman, who
for thirty-five years has been the guardian angel of the poor and
struggling women of Boston. Rising from friendless poverty, she became
widely known as a champion of human rights, and woman's rights, and,
finally, as the founder and indefatigable sustainer of that benevolent
institution widely known as Boffin's bower. Her literary powers were
finely displayed in a little volume entitled "Nature's Aristocracy,"
and her mental vigor was shown in many public addresses. Jennie
Collins was a noble illustration of the best form of Spiritualism. She
was accompanied, inspired, and sustained by spirit influence, but did
not deem it expedient to let this fact be generally known. The world
is not yet enlightened.

GREEK PHILOSOPHY.--The essential pedantic stupidity of Aristotle's
logic, and its power to belittle and benumb the intelligence of its
reverential students has been shown in every college where this effete
study is kept up. We have no better illustration of late than its
effect on Prof. Harris, who is a very intelligent and useful citizen,
but who has been so befogged by such studies as to suppose that his
pedantic talk about syllogisms embodies an important contribution to
philosophy, and indeed it was announced as such by his reporter. The
superstitious reverence for Greek literature is impressed on all young
collegians, and few recover from it. Sir William Hamilton and R. W.
Emerson, who were much more intellectual and brilliant than Prof.
Harris, were as badly afflicted as he with this Greek superstition,
which has been implanted in school boys so young that it dominates
their whole lives with the energy of a prenatal condition. The only
very silly things ever written by the brilliant Emerson were those
passages in which he speaks of Plato; and the silliest thing in the
life of Hamilton is the way in which he exulted over some trivial
modification of Aristotle's syllogistic ideas, which was about as
trivial as that of Prof. Harris, and a