shall not scruple to use it."

These extracts from my old manifestoes may possess little other
value, but they at least show this, that the peculiar policy of the
_Freethinker_ was not adopted in a moment of levity, but was from
the first deliberately pursued; and that while I held on the even
tenor of my way, I was fully conscious of its dangers.

Early in January there fell into my hands a copy of a circular to
Members of Parliament by Henry Varley, the Notting Hill revivalist.
This person was a notorious trader in scandal, and he still pursues
that avocation. Many of his discourses are "delivered to men only,"
an advertisement which is sure to attract a large audience; and one
of them, which he has published, is just on a level with the quack
publications that are thrust into young men's hands in the street.
Henry Varley had already issued one private circular about Mr. Bradlaugh,
full of the most brazen falsehoods and the grossest defamation; and
containing, as it did, garbled extracts from Mr. Bradlaugh's writings,
and artfully-manipulated quotations from books he had never written
or published, it undoubtedly did him a serious injury. The new
circular was worthy of the author of the first. It was addressed
"To the Members of the House of Commons," and was "for private
circulation only." The indignant butcher, for that is his trade,
wished "to submit to their notice the horrible blasphemies that are
appended, and quoted from a new weekly publication issued from the
office where Mr. Bradlaugh's weekly journal, the _National Reformer_,
is published. The paper is entitled the _Freethinker_, and is
edited by G. W. Foote, one of Mr. Bradlaugh's prominent supporters,
and one of his right hand men at the Hall of Science." The Commons
of England were also requested to notice that "Dr. Aveling, who for