As for the reasons which you adduce in support of the assumption, we need not go into deep reasonings to lay open their true value. Is “the history of all religions a continuous argument for Feuerbach’s assertion”? No. For the history of the Mosaic and of the Christian religion is a continuous refutation of such a slander. Are men “without any knowledge or any notion of the absolute”? No. This I have already shown to be entirely false. Men, however, are “without any immediate revelation.” This is true, but it has nothing to do with the question; first, because philosophy and reason are competent without supernatural revelation to ascertain the existence of a primary cause infinitely superior to all the natural beings; secondly, because, although we have no _immediate_ revelations, we have the old revelation transmitted to us by written and oral tradition, and by the teaching of the living church. That this revelation “is asserted by all, but not proved by any religious sect,” is one of those lies which it is quite unnecessary to refute, as there are whole libraries of Scriptural treatises, in which the truth of revelation is superabundantly vindicated. I would therefore conclude, without any further discussion, that it is to yourself, and not to your opponents, that you should apply that low criticism with which you close the twenty‐sixth chapter of your work. For it is you that “delight in hashing up cold meat with new phrases, and dishing them up as the last invention of the _materialistic_ kitchen” (p. 194). To sum up: Do you admit that man is a finite being? _Büchner._ Of course. _Reader._ Do you admit that man had a beginning? That man is ignorant, weak, wicked, and subject to death? _Büchner._ Who can doubt that? _Reader._ Then man by _self‐idealization_ cannot form an anthropomorphic notion of a supreme being without involving limitation, ignorance, impotence, malice, an origin, and an end of existence. Such, and no other, would be the result of self‐idealization. Now, our notion of God is that of a being eternal, infinite, omniscient, omnipotent, holy, immense. Is this anthropomorphism? To Be Continued. Destiny. From The French Of Louis Veuillot. It is the lot of mortals here below That they shall ever crawl from bad to worse, Approaching step by step the dismal tomb— Instance an aching tooth, with no relief Save by its loss. Cure comes by sacrifice. All victories are seeds of further strife— Of strife that never ends but in the grave, In which he only conquers who succumbs: And this is destiny. Ye dreamers of love‐dreams, of glory, wealth, Who, growing old, are scouted by the world, And then swept on into forgetfulness! All disappears—laurels, affection, gold! Blame not your faults that so things come to pass, For this is destiny. The Veil Withdrawn. Translated, By Permission, From The French Of Mme. Craven, Author Of A “A Sister’s Story,” “Fleurange,” Etc. XXII.