One of the great luminaries of the church, even the Bishop of Llandaff, has given us his own creed respecting what is called soul, which savors of something more than mere scepticism. Speaking of its supposed flight into immortality, after death, he says,--"This notion was, without doubt, the offspring of prejudice and ignorance; I must own that my knowledge of the nature of the soul is much the same now that it was then" (in childhood). "I have read volumes on the subject, but I have no scruple in saying that I know nothing about it"--Anecdotes of his own life, written by himself. But in modern times, under the triune mythology (or the three-god fable), society is in a great measure destitute of such pure morality, and sound philosophy; all being mixed up with the deleterious alloy of theology, and its ever-changing inventions in its own peculiar element of unproved existences. This supernaturalism is the only delusion that deserves the name of atheism, because it beguiles man to set at nought the immutable revelations of Nature; and its very essence being to prevent all correct views of that Power, the pretension to look beyond it nullifies or vitiates everything good on earth. Whilst mankind shall not only continue to be advocates for those impositions which destroy their own pleasure and happiness, but pay for their degradation by supporting a mischievous canker-worm priesthood, they deprive themselves of a fair trial to see what a state of affluence and ease they might attain by very moderate labor; and by repudiating all doctrines and dogmas founded on spiritualism, immaterialism, or any other nothingism, because they are words absolutely without meaning, as they represent nothing that has a real existence; and therefore, until some immaterial entity can be made palpable to the senses, they will remain downright contradictions in terms, though they have hitherto served as the principle machinery of theologie deception.* Contemning all such visionary mummeries, our divines of the present day are at no loss to find you a vast difference between a spiritual body, and a bodily spirit! * The learned amongst the Fathers were materialists. Tertullian says, "Nihil incorporale nisi quod non est." Saint Hilary, in the fourth century, affirmed that, "there is nothing but what is corporeal" Yet and attending to the principles of their own nature, together with the physical realities that surround them, and upon which alone depends every atom of their welfare and happiness, mankind will be able by perseverance to remove the overwhelming evils of their present condition; but in vain will they expect such results, while they continue mere automata, to be played at pleasure by superstition and despotism.