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before ilieir eyes, particularly when tbeir eyesare shut (as those of the persons to whom I al-lude have long been), it is impossible to convincethese poor creatures , that the fire against whichthey are perpetually warning us and themselves,is nothing but an ignis fatuus of their own dri-velling imaginations. What rhubarb, senna, or„ what purgative* drug can scour that fancythence ? ” — It is impossible, they are givenover, theirs is the true

«Caput insanabile tribus Anticyris.»

These are your true Protestants. Like Bayle,who protested against all sects whatsoever, so dothey protest against Catholic Petitions, Protest-ant Petitions, all redress, all that reason, huma-nity, policy, justice, and common sense, canurge against the delusions of their absurd deli-rium. These are the persons- who reverse thefable of the mountain that brought forth a mouse;they are the mice who conceive themselves inlabour with mountains.