blessed with sympathy, friendship, happiness and love.

This religion needs no creed, no profession of faith, no
incense, no prayer, no penance, no sacrifice. Its whole duty
consists in comforting the afflicted, assisting the unfortunate,
protecting the helpless, and in honestly fulfilling our duties
to our fellow mortals. In the language of Confucius, the ancient
Chinese Sage, it is simply "to behave to others as I would
require others to behave to me."

"Do unto others as you would they should do unto you," says
Jesus; and in the Epistle of James, we are told that "Pure
Religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To
visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep
himself unspotted from the world."

The same benign and generous conduct is commended in even
grander and nobler language in the lectures to the French
Masonic Lodges: "Love one another, teach one another, help one
another. That is all our doctrine, all our science, all our
law."

It is believed that the learned dissertation of Lord Brougham on
the _Origin of Evil_, which is annexed to this work, will need
no commendation to ensure its careful perusal.

PETER ECKLER.