Excerpt from The Ladies' Repository, 1852, Vol. 12: A Monthly Periodical, Devoted to Literature and Religion This class is numerous. Go into the streets and stores, and you find multitudes who pay attention to things only as they are forced upon them. Be cause politics, fashion, and trade press themselves on the senses, and mix themselves with the pas sions, they are politicians, or dandies, or tradesmen; and because religion does not obtrude itself on them they know but little about it; they go to meeting because custom or weariness leads them they hear of redemption, and grace, and regeneration, and they suppose, because they have heard these terms so often, that they understand them; but when asked to define, they find themselves in the situa tion of St. Austin defining time, who said, I understood all about it before I was asked, but now I know nothing of it. They, perhaps, have no objection to religion, and can hear the preacher without obnse, or, may be, as one who has a pleasant voice, and plays well on an instrument; but since they are unmiadfid of his words they are mood by them. They are infidels, as the modern Aristophanes was. Mr. Boswell asked Dr. J ohn son if Foote was an infidel. He is, said the Doctor, as adog is; he never thinks on the subject. This species of infidel may be found at all eleva tions of society, but particularly at the higher, and especially in that portion of it which has been raised suddenly. 0f such it may often be said, Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them; they send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance; they take the tim brel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ. Therefore they say depart from us: for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.