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Docile echoes of the eternal voice, pliant organs of the infinite will, such workers are going along with the essential movement of the world; and this is their strength, and their happy and divine fortune. For if the believers in action, who are so impatient with us and call us effeminate, had had the same good fortune, they would, no doubt, have surpassed us in this sphere of vital influence by all the superiority of their genius and energy over ours. But now we go the way the human race is going, while they abolish the Irish Church by the power of the Nonconformists' antipathy to establishments, or they enable a man to marry deceased wife's sister.

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LETTER VII.

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More about compulsory education

LETTER VIII.

Under a playful signature, my friend Leo, of the Daily Telegraph, advocates an important Liberal measure, and, in so doing, gives news of Arminius

LETTER IX.

Arminius, starting for the Continent to take part in the War between France and Prussia, addresses a disrespectful farewell to our people and institutions

LETTER X.

Arminius, writing from the German camp before Paris, comments, in his old unappreciative spirit, on the attitude of our beloved country in the Black Sea question

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LETTER XI.

I take up the cudgels for our beloved country

LETTER XII.

"Life,” as Mr. G. A. Sala says, a "Dream!"

MY COUNTRYMEN.

A COURTEOUS EXPLANATION

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