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 212 strange formulas, ejaculations, or syllogisms, can he really apostatise from himself so as to become a genuine member of a society to which these are not strange but natural. A penny whistle doesn't become a cathedral organ by being made to whistle the Old Hundredth; a church mouse doesn't grow a lion by straying into a Secular Hall.