--The Maniac having somewhat recovered, was asked on a Sunday if he would attend Chapel:--assuming a look of earthly pride, he answered,--"To whom shall I pray?--I cannot offer prayers to _myself_!" The other case, of a Maniac supposing himself to be THE SAVIOUR, occurred at Venice, in 1805: and to such an extent did his madness inthrall him, that he made himself a "crown of thorns," which he usually wore, and at last he actually attempted suicide by the means of _Crucifixion_! He succeeded in driving nails through his feet and right hand, and thus transfixed himself to a wooden _Cross_, and having wounded himself in the side, in imitation of the spear-wound of THE SAVIOUR, he succeeded in throwing the Cross out of a window; and it being secured with ropes, he thus exposed himself to the terrified Venetians! _Atheists and Deists are but Maniacs, whose minds are directly inverted to those believing themselves to be_ THE ALMIGHTY _or_ THE SAVIOUR.--G. J. The Aborigines of North America cannot be made to comprehend that an atheist really does exist, although they have been so informed; it being so at variance with their own confirmed and Religious conviction. In illustration of this belief and veneration, we may be excused from quoting from our own unpublished Work upon Tecumseh,--the great Chieftain of the Northern Aborigines. It is part of Tecumseh's speech upon reviewing the Decalogue, and the necessity of our Laws, and is addressed to an Anglo-Saxon. * * * * * Yet for all thy laws, and large solemn books, Ye have among ye those who disbelieve The bright existence of a God Supreme! Yet they can scent the flower, or view a falling Star! Throughout all the Indian Tribes,--or race, There is not one such wretch, fool, or madman! Deny a GOD!--MANITOU!--in mercy Place Thou th' unbeliever where he may gaze In awe-struck wonder at _Niagära!_-- The living principle of th' Universe! Ope Thou his deaf ears to that mighty voice, Which doth silence e'en the loud thunder-storm,-- Whose presence there is not known, save its fire! Strike Thou conviction to his dying heart;* And as he gazes upon the Rainbows Circling the mist-column of those waters,-- Let him feel that they are the living types Of that mighty Arch, which Thine Eye of love Hath look'd upon; and which, as Covenant Of Thy parental care, will e'en survive The Earth-destroying tempest of the World! ISAIAH seems to have alluded (inferentially at least) to the Western Hemisphere in his Tyrian Prophecy,--he writes: