Respecting tne recent prosecutions for .blasphemy the London Times; says, wiih much force ; ** The maas of men every* where have certain beliefs— call them by what name you will— associated with all their nobler impulses, all their finer emo« tions, with the joy and sorrows and difficulties of life, and with the final mystery of death. They ask everywhere that theso beliefs shall be protected from outrageous aDd gratuitous insult. We can coDfceire of no dematiu'moiia-eißsentiafly'roasonable, nor of any more fatal and irrevocable proof of irredeemable vulgarity of eoul than the refusal to coucod* it.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 165, 18 June 1883, Page 2
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