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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 15, 14 July 1887, Page 4

•' I have been seriously perplexed to know,” says Huxely, “ how the religious feeling, which is the essential base of conduct, can be kept up without the use of the Bible, For three centuries this book has been woven into the life of all that is best and noblest in English history. It forbids the veriest her. who never left his village to be ignore nt of the existence of Other countries and other civilisations, and a great past stretch'ng back to the furtherest limits of the oldest nations in the world. By the study of what other book could children be so much humanised and made to feel that each figure in the vast Historical procession fills, like themselves, but a momentary interspace in the interval between two eteinities, and earns the blessing or the curses of all kind, according to its efforts to do good and hate evil, even as they also are earning the payment for their works.”