By this reference we do not intend to take Lowell's characterizations as our standard,

but suggest that his point, so skillfully introduced at the time of the slavery question,

should help us to pierce that smug and false piety that divorces the glory of God from His

goodness and our thanksgiving, and mistranslates ritual as worship. Here again we must

pause, reserving for another paper this record of the quick following of the mind into the

follies of human imagination, when the fool had found it in his heart to say, "There is no