That is all. Why should I (we) be angry P If they
could help it they would do differently.^' These are noble
and courageous words, especially when we remember that
they were spoken and are now published"^ in the metro-
polis of Puritanism and Sabbatarianism.
* " Divine Providence in its relation to Prayer and Plagues." By
the Be v. James Cranbrook. Edinburgh. Second Edition.
STRAUSS AND RENAN.
When the solution of the same problem is simultaneoufily
undertaken by different indiyiduals^ it may be considered
as a proof that the attempt to solve it is in accordance
with the spirit of the time, and the more certainly so in
proportion to the importance of the persons devoting
themselves to that solution, and the confidence with which
they may be credited with a right understanding of what
the present time requires and is competent to perform.
