* Though the art of printing, so as to multiply the copies of a document to any extent, was known in Europe in the year 1444, yet the control and fear of priestly vengeance, prevented its being extensively useful for two centuries afterwards. This art, nevertheless, had been known and practised from time immemorial by the priests of Buddha, throughout the immense empire of Thibet, though confined by them exclusively to the purposes which promoted the interests of their religion. Oh, how rejoiced the priests of Christianity would be at this day, were it in their power to establish a similar monopoly of the printing press!--See Higgins' Anacalypsis. When our present ultra-Reformers, who call themselves Chartists, prate of church-going, and offering up prayers and religious hymns, previous to their vain consultations, our political rulers pass the wink to their clerical confederates, conveying as much as to say, this is all very well; for while these men continue under the thumb of any sect of theologians, or suffer their minds to be deluded and debauched by any scheme of supematuralism whatsoever, real knowledge and sound judgment must be strangers to their meetings; whilst the animosities of sectarism must ever prevent unanimity, without which they never can be formidable to the powers that be, however corrupt. When the education of mankind shall be so salutary as to teach them what they are in reality, the reform necessarily springing from it would quickly dissipate ignorance, conquer superstition and its priests; and, in place of pretending to look beyond Nature, whose surface alone man is hardly capable of perceiving, he would, through the evidence of his senses, follow that unerring power as the only polestar of his happiness. For the great majority of human beings thus to reform themselves, "they have but to will it;" if they will not, they deserve to continue what they ever have been--degraded outcasts and aliens from their nature. Thus with strong speech I tore the veil that hid NATURE, and TRUTH, and LIBERTY.--Shelley. END OF LECTURE SIXTH. DIALOGUE. PHYSIOLOGICAL AND THEOLOGICAL Thou, Nature, art my goddess: to thy law my services are bound. --Shakspere. "Philosophy teaches us to seek in Nature, and the knowledge of her laws, for the cause of every event; when this knowledge shall become universal, man will relinquish, with elevated satisfaction, his attachment to supernatural and vindictive theology." It is this theology that has destroyed the harmony of Nature, and demoralised the intelligent world. LUCIAN AND MODERATUS.