without having read the book of an Englishman lately published (who wished to make us believe that Jesus Christ came to exempt true believers from bodily death) was almost of the same opinion for some years past; but when he perceived that he was dying he went so far as to doubt all religion because it did not correspond to his chimera. Quirin Kulman [.s/e], a Silesian, a man of knowledge and judgment, but who had since indulged in two kinds of visions, equally dangerous, the one of the enthusiasts, the other of the alchemists, and who made some stir in England, Holland, and even in Constantinople, being at last advised to go into Russia and there to mix himself up in certain intrigues against the minister, at the time when the Princess Sophia governed it, was condemned to be burned, and did not die like a man persuaded of that which he had preached. The dissensions of these people among themselves ought further to convince them that their pretended internal witness is not divine; and that other signs are necessary to justify it. The Labadists, for example, do not agree with Mademoiselle Antoinette, and although William Penn appears to have had the. design in his travels in Germany, of which he has published an account, of establishing a kind of understanding between those who rely upon this witness, he does not appear to have succeeded. It is desirable for the truth's sake that good people be intelligent and act in concert: nothing would be more capable of rendering the human race better and happier, but it would be necessary for them to be truly of the number of the good people, i.e. of the beneficent, and, further, docile and reasonable; instead of which only too many of those who are called devout to-day are accused of being severe, imperious, obstinate. Their dissensions make it appear at least that their internal witness needs an external verification in order to be believed, and miracles would be necessary in order for them to have the right to pass as prophets and inspired men. There might, however, be a case where these inspirations would carry their proofs with them. This would be if they really enlightened the mind by important discoveries of some extraordinary knowledge, which without any external aid would be beyond the powers of the person who should have acquired them. If Jacob Boehme, a famous shoemaker of Lusace, whose writings have been translated from German into other languages under the name of the Teutonic Philosopher, and in reality possess something of grandeur and beauty for a man in this condition, had known