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    On the Gradations of Intellect . —Best Plans of Chapeh . 545

    'I cannot disguise from myself that there appears a broad inconsistency in this . It may be said , and perhaps has been , that it was not to satisfy his own mind , but to have light imparted to the minds of his disc iptes , that

    John deputed two of them on this inquiry . But , the answer of Jesus to it , commencing with " Go and tell John , " does not seem to recognize this intention of the Baptist , and I trust that some of your Correspondents will think the ' subject worthy of , and attempt , a more pertinent elucidation . BREVia

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    Sir , IN the very ingenious sermon lately published by our excellent friend Mr . Gilehrist , the situation of the Hottentot is placed in the middle of a

    by the highest and lowest orders of finite intelligence . It may amuse some of your readers to see the difference between the conceptions of a metaphysician and a mathematician on this subject . Had 1 wished to endeavour la make a scale of this

    kind intelligible to the general reader , I should have desired him to conceive aline some millions of miles in length * the lowest inch of which should be divided by my friend Lowrie into the smallest parts he could make visible to the e \ e , assisted by glasses , and in the lowest division thus made I should

    place the Hottentot . This is not a new idea just started upon the occasion , as in the year 1799 I expressed something similar to it in the second part of my Algebra , which I closed with the following reflection .

    u investigation of the properties of equations is endless . It is with them as with intelligent beings . There is no limit to the number of modes of each form . There is tio limit to the number of forms . There

    * s no limit to the number of orders . There is no limit to the number of classes . Each mode has its peculiar curve . The lives of men of the first talents have been ernploved upon a

    single curve , and there are not names given to a hundred species of curves . By the clas * of intelligent beings uext in rank above man , ali these equations and all these curves are perhaps

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    thoroughly understood , and the next class excels them as much as they do us . How great then must be that Being to whom the thoughts of all these orders of beings are known at a moment ' glance , and how insignificant , in the eye of reason , are those

    nations which lay dovva rules for thought , and persecute for opinions itf Supposing the Hottentot to have been properly placed by me in the scale of intelligence , where are we to place a Newton , a Locke , a Hobbes , a Milton , a Shakespeare } W . FREND ,

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    Sir , IT has been a subject of surprise with me , that in this age , when houses for w orship and exhortation spring up in every part of our country , with a rapidity unknown to our forefathers , that your Miscellany has not noticed the different forms that

    have been used , what forms are cheapest , what forms arc most ornamental , in what form the speaker can be heard . easiest , in fact , what form answers the purpose best : yet these are not matters of a minor importance , nor is the subject one of which a new

    congregation is likely to be a judge . When Dissenters fi rst emerged from their mother church they only wanted shelter from the inclemency of the climate , but this is no reason why ,

    in the present state of society , they should neglect convenience , economy or ornament , combined with plain simplicity . This evidently is wanted . I pray some person to supply the defect . J . O . H .

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    Bristol , Sir , August \ % 1819-f I'X ) fulfil my engagement , 1 have had JL transcribed the Lecture which I referred to in my last communication , [ p . 420 , ] on Divine Influences and Conversion . If I had time , I would

    endeavour to abridge it-j but m present circumstances it is impossible ? . As the subject is one of great importance , I willingly hope that your readers will pardon the length of the

    communication . I t ; tke for granted you will think it necessary to divide it into two or three portions at least . This I must leave absolutely to you ^ but I may be permitted to suggest to

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1819, page 545, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1776/page/21/