"Her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn," although accomplished in the same year, has only been discovered (from the Ruins of Ancient America) to have been fulfilled, together with the "local habitation," at this present time,--_and therefore 2298 years after_ EZRA,--and 2554 years from its original promulgation by ISAIAH! And the reader should remember this important fact,--viz., that the discovery of the Ruins has been _since_ the atheistical writings of the sceptics,--their names we will not offend the eye with! If a man would crush a serpent, he should not elevate it to an idol, but place his heel upon its head, that it may be trodden under foot, and so forgotten! Bring forward the _venom_ of the serpent, if you will, and analyze it,--that you may avoid its corrupting qualities,--but give no _name_ to the serpent-sceptic itself,--lest that _that_ fame might have been the sole object of his ambition, and by granting his wish, it would have the evil tendency of inciting others to imitation. Many a public villain has become so, merely from the desire of acquiring the notoriety of a preceding one, whose name could only be equalled, by the imitation, or excelling of those crimes leading to the creation of the name. It is the same in the path of virtuous Patriotism. To acquire the name of an Alfred or a Washington, we must imitate the deeds, or the quality of the deeds, that made them so justly renowned,--_the Name of the Hero is the attraction_,--and therefore, in all records of crime, the names of the criminals, should not be held up to public gaze and wonder: for the desire of _evil notoriety_, forms no small minority in the human family. But in justice to fallen Nature, it would not be difficult to prove that all atheistical writers have been victims of insanity or intemperance,--the latter vice often producing the former calamity;--and there is nothing more astounding in hearing an unconfined Maniac deny the existence of a GOD,--than that one asylumned should assume that _he_ is THE ALMIGHTY! or that one should deny that CHRIST in his Divine Character was upon earth, than that another should really believe that _he_ is the SAVIOUR![18] But the misfortune has been, and is, that their _printed works_ may be read by persons of weak intellects, and so lead them into the paths of darkness and confusion. [18] The first extraordinary case actually exists at the Hanwell Lunatic Asylum (England), now under the direction of the great philanthropist, Dr. JOHN CONOLLY (the governor of the noble institution), whose name will descend to posterity as one of the brightest ornaments to human nature; and in the enjoyment of whose personal friendship, the present writer has felt for years one of the highest compliments to his existence.