New-York tribune., 1874-07-03
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
rHs roRrMoHrIY REVIEW Jus. b Hon. Co

THR FoRTNdHTJY REVIEW. JusH ~ -,
A second paper in this number oy W. go. 80"
r. Wallace completes his defense o. -,.1 ,,oo.
TAM and presents a sumusr5 VI '"o e
Su , 81 - sa,toas ana confirmation in that system
,r,a -, ,,nortant conclusions are that man Is
aar,v consisting 81 an organized sprltuai iofm pre-
.,,n,, tho nd, steal body, and having corresponding
ra and developments that death is the separation
a. rms quality effects change in tho spirit either
or,ly OF intellectually that progressive evolution Is
noe destiny Of individuals, the attainments OF the
present forming the basis Of the future me- ana tha
spirts can communicate through properly endoweo
mediums Mr. Wallace also considers that the question
of the efficacy OF prayer receives perfect solution
In spiritualsm The Of George Muller, for exam
pie which has often been cited as an illustration OF
the power Of faith explained by the influence OF good
spirits who are perpetually at work In prompting
others TO send him supplies of money food ana coth-
Ing according TO HE needs. Mr. Wallace makes a
strenuous attempt TO account for the lnconceNdpie
twadde and rivality which departed spirits OF hEh
character are made to utter; but he fails to show why IL
"a that Franklin should hold forth like sentimental
schoolmaster that DIR. Claiming should indulge IN
wIshy- -washy illusions Of stupid COMMONPLACE, ana
that the brave Theodore Parker should talk Ike milk
SOD and a charatan.-An article OF great OlSlDah'y
and power, on compromise" by Mr. John Morley IN
ssts on sincerity OF utteranoe in the expression OF
opinion aud the danger OF yaing p5% convictions OF
truth by the language q established formulas. Apropos
Of the Yell Known letter OF Hume In which he recon-
mends a young man TO become clergyman on the
ground that it very hard to get any
toerabe civil employment, Mr.. Morley presents teI-
ribe picture Of the effects of such mental hypocrisy
LET thus much have been said as to those WHO ue-
nberatey and knowingly sell their intellectual brth-
right for mess Of pOttage, making brazen compro-
mise with what they hold despicabe, lest they should
have 10 win their bread hOnOrably Men need eNpehd
no declamatory indignation upon them. They nave a
he'll OF their own words add no bitterness 10 H. III
is no light thing have secured livelihood on conu-
tion OF going through life masked and gagged. To be
compeled week after week, aud year after year, to
rece the symbols Of ancient fah and lift up his voice
in the echoes Of old hopes, with the blghng Thought
in his soul that the faith lie. and the hope no more
than the folly of the crowd; TO read hundreds OF ues
In twelvemODth with solemn JUNCTION as the inspired
word OF the Supreme what to him are meaningless
as the Abracadabras OF the conjurer IA BOOTH TO go
on TO the end Of his days administering holy rites OF
eoumemoration and solace TO simple folk, when be
has in his mind at each phrase what dupes are
these simple folk and how wearsomey counterfeit the
rites and know through all that TINS Is really 10 DC
the one business Of his prostituted fe that SO dreary
and hateful piece of play-acting will make the des-
perae retrospect Of his last hours-here is OF truth
The very abon alton Of desOatOn OF the human spirit
indeed No one Will suppose that this is designed Tor
the normal type Of priest But 1t is well to study ten
denotes in their catastrophe and this is only
the catastrophe in Of its many shapes, OF tue laa
doctrine that money, position, power phaulHIoPJ' Vi
ANY of te thousand seductive masks OF the pseudo
expedicut, may carry man away from love OF truth
and yet leave him internally unharmed. The deprava
on which follows the trucking OF intellectual freedom
and serespect for money attends in its degree each
other departure from dsineTested following of truth
and each other substitution Of convenience, whether
public or private, in its place" Mr.. Morley, we be-
eve makes pretensons to soundness Of faith in the
common acceptaton the term, but his high stoical
morality viii 20 far TO atone for any speculative short
comiugs.