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 in lucid language, sets out the diverse varieties, the subtle sources, the baleful results and the effective solvents, on the one hand, of ‘‘ rnau’s injury to brother-man in the name of religion ” and, on the other, of man’s degradation of God the Formless into the grossness of “ a materialised or ‘ symbolised ’ deity ” ; and, furthermore, the limitations of well-meant make-shifts and half-measures towards reformation, as also of conformity to custom on principle, so-called, in disregard of conviction. The two College Addresses will be specially welcome to loving ‘ old boys ’ and respectful ex-colleagues, to the trustful co-administrators and the “ passionate and yet dispassionate ” patron, as the preserved record of a loftj- outlook upon the educational mis'feioa of an accredited institution honoured and enriched with close upon a decade-and-a-half of presiding beneficence under the sweetest the most sanctified, of relations evermore and all-round. Cf these singularly cherished sentiments, the strongest finds grateful expression in words which must here be reinscribed to be