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plained the whole course of things would have been changed,

and there would have been no Jewish unbelief, no Roman Church, and last, but not least, no Napoleon III. But as he talks of Alia Capitoline and the Augustine age, considers "Ionia" as equivalent to "ages of ages," makes omega the symbol of nullity, and Petras Latin for a rock, describes comets as " rushing on their elliptical course governed by no law," and has left more than one English sentence beginning with " if " still waiting for its consequent, we think he will scarcely be accepted as an authority on the value of language or the force of terms.