_Sir Telegraph Paxarett._ Speculative opinions have been sometimes changed by the efforts of roaring fanatics. Men have been found very easily permutable into _ites_ and _onians_, _avians_, and _arians_, Wesleyites or Whitfieldites, Huntingdonians or Muggletonians, Moravians, Trinitarians, Unitarians, Anythingarians: but the metamorphosis only affects a few obscure notions concerning types, symbols, and mysteries, which have scarcely any effect on moral theory, and of course, _a fortiori_, none whatever on moral practice: the latter is for the most part governed by the general habits and manners of the society we live in. One man may twang responses in concert with the parish clerk; another may sit silent in a Quakers’ meeting, waiting for the inspiration of the Spirit; a third may groan and howl in a tabernacle; a fourth may breakfast, dine, and sup in a Sandemanian chapel: but meet any of the four in the common intercourse of society, you will scarcely know one from another. The single adage, _Charity begins at home_, will furnish a complete key to the souls of all four; for I have found, as far as my observation has extended, that men carry their religion[7] in other men’s heads, and their morality in their own pockets. _Mr. Forester._ I think it will be found that individual example has in many instances produced great moral effects on the practice of society. Even if it were otherwise, is it not better to be Abdiel among the fiends, than to be lost and confounded in the legion of imps grovelling in the train of the evil power? _Sir Telegraph Paxarett._ There is something in that.