MATERIALISM AND MORALITY.
[To TN' EDITOR OF TICE " SPECTATOR:] SIR,— Will you kindly allow me a little space to correct one— perhaps the most important—of several annoying errors of the press in my article," Materialism and Morality," which appears in the current number of the Fortnightly Review ? Towards the end of p. 587, I have cited the following passage from the Dean of St. Paul's " Oxford University Sermons :"—" The Christian idea of purity has still a hold upon our society, imperfectly enough. Can one ask a more anxious question than whether this hold will continue P No one can help seeing, I think, many ugly symptoms. The language of revolt is hardly muttered. The ideas of parity which we have inherited and thought sacred, are boldly made the note and reproach of the Christiana." The printers have made the quotation end at " imperfectly enough," thus very greatly weakening its force, and attributing to me three sentences which are the Dean's.—I am, Sir, An.,
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