be branded as 'a school of Atheism.' And it was through such agencies, that his enemies at court were able to sow suspicions in Elizabeth's mind in regard to the entire orthodoxy of his mode of explaining certain radical points in human belief, and in regard to the absolute 'conformity' of his views on these points with those which she had herself divinely authorised, suspicions which he himself confesses he was never afterwards able to eradicate. The matter was represented to her, we are told, 'as if he had set up for a doctor in the faculty and invited young gentlemen into his school, where the Bible was jeered at,' and the use of profane anagrams was inculcated. The fact that he associated with him in his chemical and mathematical studies, and entertained in his house, a scholar labouring at that time under the heavy charge of getting up 'a philosophical theology,' was also made use of greatly to his discredit. And from another uncontradicted statement, which dates from a later period, but which comes to us worded in terms as cautious as if it had issued directly from the school itself, we obtain another glimpse of these new social agencies, with which the bold, creative, social genius that was then seeking to penetrate on all sides the custom-bound time, would have roused and organised a new social life in it. It is still the second-hand hearsay testimony which is quoted here. '_He is said_ to have set up an Office of Address, and it is _supposed_ that the office _might_ respect a _more liberal intercourse_--_a nobler mutuality of advertisement_, than would perhaps admit of _all sorts of persons_.' 'Raleigh set up a kind of Office of Address,' says another, 'in the capacity of an agency for all sorts of persons.' John Evelyn, refers also to that long dried fountain of communication which _Montaigne_ first proposed, Sir Walter Raleigh put in practice, and Mr. Hartlib endeavoured to renew. 'This is the scheme described by Sir W. Pellis, which is referred traditionally to Raleigh and Montaigne (see Book I. chap. xxxiv.) An Office of _Address_ whereby the wants of _all_ may be made known to ALL (that painful and great instrument of this design), _where men may know what is already done in the business of learning, what is at present in doing, and what is intended to be done_, to the end that, by such a _general communication of design and mutual assistance, the wits and endeavours of the world_ may no longer be _as so many scattered coals_, which, for want of _union_, are soon quenched, whereas being laid together they would have yielded _a comfortable_ light and heat. [This is evidently _traditional_ language] ... such as advanced rather to the _improvement_ of _men_ themselves than their means.'--OLDYS.