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l KBAEL iyB^^ ^* lj |> \SI3'1 j«a. TUP i ^„ and the tree qf life was: It suffices to know roused in him , and bo felt himself alone in the reader will observe, was analogous to "Rome, and in Cologne, the more sagacious %i J K - .J " ^^-A £*¦"¦» U^aL that he must have acknowledged two prln- the 'inidst of paradise, with ite thousand that pursued by the Dominicans agfanst and penetrating Reuchliuhvns beheld in ' '"

I '*!<P* a»fc*yyl4 iJn%&J?*! ciples, namely : that the culture of the charms, among all the animals which sur- Reuchllri for speaking in behalf Of the this controversy the work of Providence.I vrrvnT*V^^T?w'WW^^>" mind begins with the

knowledge of good rounded him, precisely as the youthful Jews.] The young theologian then relates The first edition of these Letters had been\rsY( C*i- '-irV) nK(c<C%( Y Y/ JTti'TiL'i and evil.with the development Of the moral breast of the adiilt is moved and acitated that he once bent the knee before a picture sold so rapidly, that shortly afterward aiVVl 85i) l*i*lK^IL/^ /l 4/HwH'i'ri feelings, which are the glorious birthright in proper time by the power of affection, in a certain church, thinking it was the second edition appeared, containing new,ElfyJjVfff: £.^v^>.~f. *¦¦<**,:Ar.f rfM of man ; and that virtue and piety signify Tho buds open, the blossoms smile and imago of St. Peter, but, ., upon drawing additional letters of the-same sort. In one ¦ ¦ >"W ^S^as^SaR^S*1! : " T obedience to divine laws, submission- to kiss the light; Therefore, he tells us. God nearer, was astonished to find that it was of these Hocigstraten is represented indulge ;""' ¦v •£& &fy- ^WVv&v*:*:> TW the holy will of the Father, obedience and gave him woman, the helpmate, the hand the likeness of a Jew. Stung with remorse ing In the followiag complaint t "I< wished7 ^ N wyj v v*i y submission in consequence of the eternal which best of all cultivates the most tender of conscienoe^ho went to a Dominican con- I had never commenced this affair. They- • • • ¦ ¦ ¦ throng, the irresistible longing of the soul affections, to complete the nature of Adam fessor, who explained to him the awful are all laughing at and teasing me. Here

BLOCH & CO : : • • • Publishers, to obey and submit , and the solid convic- bv the lessons of affection and love. character of the sin he had, though unin- (in Rome) Reuchlin has a greater reputa-tion that this is right and good. "The passions which God has placed in tentionally. committed ; adding that, but tion than in Germany. He is a favorite of

CIBCIHUATI FBIDAY NOVEMBER 2, 1866. Did not Moses teach you precisely the the human heart are tho fountain-head of for his being at that time accidentally many -cardinals, prelates, and papal of-'. 1 same lesson , when he said , "Thou shalt happiness, if they remain under the proper vested with episcopal authority, he could ficiala. .. . . If I were only at home in Cb-tehms of subscuiption. love God thy Lord with all thy might?" control of moral feeling and understanding, not have absolved him from his mortal logne ! In my absence, methinks, things

u oo The precept is clear ; It enjoins upon us the They are the means to propel man onward sin; and that if tho"same had been com- are taking an unfavorable turn in Ger-i?KHOH*H

E' PCr "DnUm-— r 200 duty to submit our will to the wUl of God. and forward on tho path of culture to per- mitted intentionally, the Pope alone would many. They are ati writing books on the-itmAKLiTE and DKBonAH 'to'one 'fiddre^'Z'.r. 6 oo To obey is the essence of this golden rule, fection, if ho is their master and ruler, have had power to cancel such a sin. And ology ad libitum,." This flat and fidgetyIsraelite single copies. .'. ioc. and ' to obey from motives of love, cheer- They are the chief ties which connect us so the young theologian advises Pellifex tone runs through the whole letter. ThisDebobah ,' " « so. fully and entirely, with the pure conscious- with society, and secure us the benefit and fo confess his making courtesy to the two furnished fresh material forlaughter. Thobetrothal, mabbiaok and FnffEBAi. Notices ness of goodness and its excellency, to God blessing of civilization. Abuse them, and Jews before the Official, as he had neglected benighted Dominicans were so stupid, thatinserted for $i ,oo each. Rn(l His loving kindness. The precept is they ruin you, physically and spiritually ; to look more closely, in which case he at first they thought these Letters wereKKHOLtmoNH not exceeding twenty lines, js.ooeach ciear ; j t teaches us that obedience to divine use them purely and prudently, and they would have observed the yellow circle on written in their favor. But when, fromWe cannot charige the address of a subscriber , j aw8 submission to the holy will, are the make you happy. This affection which their dress distinguishing the Jews from the loud merriment of their opponents,unless ho gives us his former, as wen as the present. 8afest guides of man on his path of moral God placed in the human heart must be the clergy. Taking this advice, Pellifex they perceived that the object of these Let-rej ectku MANuaounTs -we win not return ro- development to perfection and happiness, used to cultivate our love, to enlarge and asks Ortuin the very grave and important.tersrwas to.hold them up to public ridiculej cctcu manuscripts. The author of the second chapter to Gen- extend it, from the family to the human question, "Whether he had committed a and scorn, they, were full of violent rage.

RATES or ADVERTISING esis teaches you precisely the same precept; family, from the creatures to the Creator, pardonable or unpardonable sin, whether But-their ravings were impqtentj as they'™. ,i i i * „ ,.,„ ^i,n.i.o,i •*?,» «h/n,» t= the same lesson of obedience to divine laws,' from nature to nature's God. As the circle his case bo a simple one, or whether it were not prepared for that sort of .attack.

-AVf.TK' the same means to the culture of the soul. of our understanding steadily enlarges, so must be brought before a bishop, or even Pfefferkorn and- his prompters endeavored . '¦¦ • •i column per year . 9 300 00 the province of love must be continually the Pope." Ho also desires Ortuin to write to weaken the effect produced . by ..these« •• ' ' / ' . ' . ' . ' . ' . na'ooJ The moral sentiment consists of an inate extended ; therefore, God gives us parent, to him? Whether the citizens of Frankfort Letters, by issuing anotheft pamphlet illY<i "n> /iai (Dmw mn'nth ' ' " ' ' 10s'oo" an(1 irresistible conviction, that right is child, spouse, brother, sister and friend , as were right in suffering the Jews to go about German arid Latin, with the title, > f Defense. q « '* » s » ' ' _ ' , \ ioj ioI right, and wrong is wrong. It is a feeling, He unrolls to our gaze the great volume of in the same dress as the; doctors of sacred against the notorious' JSpistolac.Obsourm 'wtn

;; ;; 6 " . . ££'£2- a sentiment, which, for its definitions, de- the universe. theology. The Emperor on ght*not to tol- yirorum.^ But this .only served to pour '¦. - .ycari 80^00. pends on the understanding; Our reason Poor Adam submitted nis moral senti- erate such Jews—those dogs, enemies of oil into the fire, and increase still more the

' ~ ': ~~ tells us Which is which;.it is our under- ment. and his understanding to the voice Christ, &c. . [This, too, wa:s in the style of inclination to laugh on the .part of theTU/irtlnfrir»ol nnrvorfmnnf standing which judges what is right and ,of affection; ho transgressed the divine the Dominicans.] Surely nothing was Reuchlinians. 'I Il"UIUcLlv<ll Ut/Udl LI 11 wl l li what iswrong. The divine commandments law, and believed ho could, by eating this more .adapted to ridicule the miserable, The German Jews alone could not join in . ¦

. . °: ' . r ¦' can be revealed into reason 's ear only ; the or that fruit, become like Elohim; he hair-splitting logic of the . scholastic the- the general laugh. What profi ted it them; , :w • t? understanding alone is capable of coinpre- yielded fto affections uncontrolledj arid lost ¦ ologians of the-time, than the alleged inci if-a few enlightened . Christians manifestedJ bAAO M.. vyioJi, : : : xj DITOR. bending the divine will. . The immoral enor- his paradise. This was so, it is so, and dents described in this letter. a peculiar partiality toward Judaism? The„ ' • ¦ ¦ . . mities of unihstructod man originate in will remain- so, as long as human nature In another letter a disciple of Ortuin, Christian community ,at large- were once^. . . . his deficient judgment, not in the want of remaihs.trie same. Our affections , in order Smearugly, with a heart full of sorrow for all prejudiced, against the Jewish faith ;' ,:

UNIT7 OP THE LAW. moral feeling, which God lias bestowed to load us to perfection and happinesa,:like conies complaining to his master that the aud its, votaries. Erasmus weU, remarksAn Abstract from a Sermon Preaclefl ia the alike on all his children. the moral sentimeiits and understanding, people of; May ence- are by no means, as at the* time: "If it be. Christian to hate theBu uuauavi uv

„ %. rli l Again the understanding is our safe must submit to' God, and center in Him. pious as those of Ctologrie ; that one of the Jews, then ,are,we very Christian.!' TheirBene YesnUTUn Temple. guide in all earthly enterprises ; it leads who^ is the. source of love. We. are taught citizens of Mayence ; had 'even dared to .eneinies, therefore, found it no difficult . ''¦"The Law of the Lord is perfect," the us to art and.science, to security and civi- to love God with ail our heart; all our sen- maintain that the holy coat at Triors never task.to injure them. , And. so the D6mirii« ¦ ¦'¦•¦;¦¦

dk>irio bard exclaims 1 to wiich we have ligation, to; comfort and prosperity. It is timenits and affections must haye the great belonged to Christ, but was an old. ragged cans meanwhile^strove to attain their .ob- ; .,to add however numerous tho authors who "tho staff of bread and the staff of water," object to love .God, aiid therefOre'they must ' garment^that the hair of the blessed^yir- ject by wreaking vengeance upon the Jews. .wrotb iho various portioiis 'of Sacred Scrip- a gift of heaven jyirhich none can neglect stand under the control of good morals, and gin is no more in ' existence, and that .he Pfefferkorn had repeatedly called attention ;¦ :tures however distant they may have .been ;withbut experiencing the adequate and just sound- understanding. .Moses teaches the despises: the indulgences of-the Domini- to the fact' that theso were-.but threo.'large .' •from 'each other in space and time, and punishment; it is the siin whicli affords us same lesson as. the author of this chapter cans, the latter being swindlers, defraud- Jewish.Congregationsrin Germany—at Ra-Svhatevor the different characteristics may light to the performance of our tasks as does; only that he beginning .with love,. ing alike women and peasants. " Whicli^^ tisbon.JFrankfort and Worms—which .herhe in diction form arid conceptions of : the children of the Living God. Therefore, " Thou, shalt . love God thy Lord," must I healringj cried : 'Into the fire^into the ing destroyed, the whole Jewish race woulddiverse agesV there is unquestipnably an next to, the moral feelings, the mental ca- have .begun witlr;the heart,' .arid^ then :fol- fire with this heretic ! -If only Hoogstraten be extirpated from:Germany. :. ¦;• - ¦ admirable-unity in the whole of Sacred paclties of ,man.riiusi bo! developed, trained, lows the understanding and the will. ; The ,were to hear ,this-4he' Grand Infiuisitorl' ''Iri 6r3er' .to.. effect ; the expulsion: of the:; ^ , '

. Scriptures - a unity of fundamental doc- chltivatfed , put into' action: by any, means, author Of Genesis following the natural de- But he (the citizen of , Mayehce) laughed, Jews from Frankfort ..and . Worinsi their -; ' :tririe^sartd pririeiples, of those gifeat verities Therefore, next to the moral, feelings, the velopnient of . manlbegihs with the. jivill, : saying: .'Hoogstraten :iSr-ari . abohiiriable eneriiies hit. upon the following expedient: '¦¦¦¦upon which. universal religion bases her mental capacities brighten up in the child;: follows with understanding arid closesI with.- creature, but.Reuchlin, i$ a man of honor, ' The Archbishop of Mayerice, at the iristiirice:mighty columns of truth and civilization it asks why ? and %vherefore ? , It observes affection; for in this Very order the hurriari while, the theologians are devils.; iThe.tJni- : of .some ecclesiastics who were befriended • ¦reared his proud: superstructure;.a unity, matters and thibgs about itself, forms ideas', capacities are brought put. He, like Moses, yersity of. Paris which cpndemriQd Reuchr, with Hoogstraten, issued a call tofall cleri- ; ; : 'which like the soul in the various limbs iand cohcepti6ns,,and stores, them away in tells lis how'we must act to cultivate the lih's book, was bribed by the Doiriinicansjj cal and .tenipbral lords of (^rrhari cities toof the body, coniiects to a^ harmonious one memory's treasury .foe the benefit of the souiarid'guard it., The. precept of Moses is she . is not ,the mother; of all:, other High cdnvene at JFrarikfdrt, for the. purpose^ of*all parts'of Scripiuresi from the 'first words dawning nnd&rstanding. .. . :; an 'abstract of this beautiful narrative. Schools, but the mother, of stupidity.'; The^^ considering the propriety.of expelling the ;;' ; • -¦'¦ of Genesis to tne last words in the Hip- Precisely so,, the author of this, second One spirt, one divine lesson, is at the foun- Talmud, he also; maintained, was never Jews from Germany, and; hever .again re-' -graphy. "All the authors were; inspired chapter of Genesis, tells us Adam did. datidn of both, as one spirit.arid one .divine condemned; by the Church." - , '¦ •' ¦ admitting them. In obedience to this call,with the same truth, arid adyocated it with After his riioral;consciericb:was.r.6used,:the mind, pervades the;whole; of Sacred Scrip- . In^^ the . saine triflirig^style. the ^ lettei' con- deputies'.. 'of^ several cities and /episcopal : ,. .the sarrieuriconiproriiislng conviction of its process of Observatipii arid reflection began;.' tures froiri the begitinihg to; the end. May tinues. to ridicule theTDominicans.'. A pro- dioces assembled in. Frankfort on the 7th . "¦ ?- -

' final triumph; however various the ¦¦moth-- --All tho .animals (verses 19 and 20) ; were this holy spirit .guide arid lead us all to fessor- of theology, cdutibns : Ortuin against of January, 1516. According to .-the ; pro-. '¦¦ ¦-,;

ods ' and riia'nners . of their expositions, brought tol Adainvthat is, they came under, perfection arid happiness; setting a. bad; example , by.unbecoming inr gramnie laid ,before the - assoriibly;; they ¦¦; ';. Moses taught' us j "Thbii shalt love God- his observation ; he named them, as he:iin^ '¦¦¦¦ ¦ ' ¦ ': ' ¦ ¦;. ''-*»' . " . ' :'¦• ' ¦ tercourse with Avomeri; but ; his -writingthy Lord with all thy heart,1 arid with all derstipbd their various" .characteristics * and; , LCopyright secured according-to Law. j ' • against Beiichlin, was' taken as; an eqiiiv'a- tb reri6unce airrights and beriefits they.de-- I ,' , thy soul, aiid all thy riiight;'' and the au- ho distinguished them fro m each other by TWpT.TTEWOB QP JUDAISM ON THE - PRATES- lent for; this sin... Pfefferkorn', it .is said; rived from , the'Jews; tb expel theirJewishthor of the second chapter of Genesis had different criteria; ho,had formed ideas arid \ ¦

m&\im- 'iimmuZmri\i*r whom Ortuin defends.'is agpod-for-riothing subjects froih. their several; domains,-andprecisely the same great precept in view, conceptions of the .things , around hiinself, - . '- . .: TAKT KbrOBMATIOM. ' , . fellow,. who.;joined ; the Church not frorn never , again, under any title, whatsoever,"When he narrates the first educational steps arid retained these mental treasures for. the ("'Translated e3cnressiy_ fpr,tho, Israelite, ft6m tho Gei* love of the^Christiari faith, hut because the adrriit them either for permanent or tempo-of the first man, of Adam. Let us take a «s'eof dawning understanding; his under- . man_ of xir.^i. Graetz.

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tuska.v =- .. . Jews wanted to hang him'for/his, cririies,. rary residerice. Having'; pa'ss'e'd this toso- •!; closeririspection ofthat instructivo'chaptor. standing, did awake, for among all these- he eeleto-ated Hpi slolas Obsmmi-um Tiro- he being a scoundrel and an . informer, liitioh, they were to Submit the same to theAfter iho ofigiri of the Sabbath is com- creatures he found himself atone, mentally rum—Their Scathing Satire and ingenious Tiley also say that Pfefferkpr'n, like his . Eniperor' arid solicit his'.approval.': ' ;Iri.'their '- ' .; ' ¦'

municated, which properly belongs to tlie and. morally different,; of different posture exp osure ol' the Dominicans— Greai Merri- ?a"?esake who was burned , at the stake in deliberations bvej::tho' Weal; or:woe ,'pf :the ¦ '; :¦.first chariter. the author adds a brief re- and countenance, internally and externally ? . . J

¦ ¦. . ¦¦ . .. - . . ' ¦ - . ;_ Halle, is a bad Christian, and.wilt one day Jews of .Western Germany, the representa- ;;view of Creation to the point; when man ' .different from all creatures . about hiiri; n}ent, m Europe at their expeme—Iinpo- become a renegade.' Ortuiri. is, therefore, tives' of the Palatiiiato.'Hessia, -.and. several ,came forth from the hauofof the Almighty, Ada m recognized his personality, his: self, tent rage of the Dominicans—Attempt to warned to be on his guard against him.. cities, voted for theirexpulsion; The cities . '•¦:..._ — — ^and oxpl'airis the termsr'of^the -first chapter, his ego;. he hacL, reached : the second scale expel the Jews froih Qei-many j bkt dt • Another, Simpletpnius de Peperiekj- tells :of Frankfort; Worms; arid a few more, gave ' ; '

. .."•- .¦¦•'And-God created man.in his image,1' by ; in the ladder of per fection-he thought. .. Frankf drt f or this vurvose—Tltp Emnf ^nr ?rtuLn that ho had recently, disputed with; their consent - Only , conditionally,; iiariiely, :, ;. ;.Vthe. words, "And He (God) breathed, into But lo,..with the . first thoughts came.also -eiawjort joi tins purpos e -ihe emperor t>T0 jewg.in Worms on the belief in a Mes- provided there was! perfect unanimity on' ...¦ his (man's) nostrils the soul of life.^' If ext the desire to bo like , Elohim. to know, all against the expulsion of the Jews, ;siah, showing theiri .the delusion uridor the.ciuestiori.. Thei deputies of Fulda alone,; '¦. "¦he proceeds telling'us about the'garderi of that is good, all that , is evil ; the first-man ,' During this suspense,, while , all classes, which they labored, and referring tnem for the Count of: Wertheim, arid a few niore ' .';!'• ;:¦ ¦'-:Eden which the Lord prepared for a habi- lin ,his first. attempts atthought, cduld .not' both high arid lowi clergymen of all grades, prpof .to Pfefferkorn;. to which the Jjbws voles; were against expulsion, though only ;tatiori to the-first man, and in verse 15 he know that thought has and. must have its :princes and . enlightened citizens, were laughing replied : "Your Pfefferkorn in from selfish motives. The. delegation from ' ';.'comes back to riian, in the words com- lihiits ; we can not be like.JBioAtm, we aro . eagerly waiting for inforriia'tion relative to. Cologne' is a base swindler. He knows , Fulda inaintairied-that the expulsion' ofthe^monly rendered^ "And the Lord God tpot limited into the narrow'confines of a' body, the Reuchlinian. trial in Roino, one of tlie npthirig of Hebrew, and has turned Chris- Jews ,would prove detrimental., to thdm, - .man, and put him into the. garden, of. Eden, He served his: soul, ho cultivated it; .but younger humanists, composed a series of tiari only, to hide his wickedness- When since those expelled would be received into till it, and to keep it." , It appears to us, he did ..not .guard it, and lost his paradise, letters, which in. wit, huirior and pungent jet a Jew in his native country, Moravia, Lower Hessla, Henheberg arid Thuriingen,.;that this translation is. ferroneous in thje' Qur reason rib less than: our will; our un- satire have- never -been equaled in the pro- he struck a .woman on her face, that she arid then they (theisubjects of Fulda) woula v:main, innpi which QnJcelos. Yefushalmi and derstanding no less, than , our passions^ gress of literature. These, " Letters of the niight not see hira stealing 2O0.flbr ins. from suffer niore grievances than , if the Jews •; Jonathan render rvn^KV can not be render- must submit to

Sovereign .Reason^ llni- lTnenlightened"^T-E5nstoi(B- Obscurorum Vi- 'tho desk Avhere she Was sitting, audran off. were aEowed to remain. Besides, they; haded "and put," when it actually signifies ,. -versal. Uriderstunding. We riiust know roruin— as they were called, were pub- In die place the gallowsiwas already ierect- hut recently granted the Jews protection -"Aiid ho led him," God caused man tb enough to know, the limits of knowledge, lished in the course of.the year 1515, most ed for him on account of a theft he had . fbrseveral years to come, arid were there-walk about in the garden arid observe its and the. hori zon- is quite sniall; our reason ot them being.addressed to thatbase.rascal committed ; but by some means or othei: fore riot disposed to a.ct contrary to theirbeauties. Wo. can not see what "tilling '' aQd understanding inust be sufficiently Ortuin Gratius, and written iri the. style of he was liberated. We have seen the galr; ' promise. Michael, the" Count of Wertheim,and " keeping " man could do under those cultivated to behold clearly that there is a the illiterate monks. In them the author lows, and so have some Christians and expressed himself iri a similar strain. Thecircumstances; There was no necessity for Sovereign Reason and Universal Under- exposes the: meanness, haughtiness, the noblemen, whom we can mention byname; Jews, he thought, if expelled frPm his do-tilliiig the ground, nor could Adam know standing beyond tho reach of our research amazing ignorance, lewdness and obscurity Hence you must not refer to the thief as main, would find a domicile in WurJzburg,any thing about it, When bridal n ature and the norizpn of our comprehension. To of the Dominicans—their miserable Latiri, • evidence." To which Simpletonius replies:: Rosenburg and other places, where many ¦ .'¦ spontaneously produced plenty, and "Adam Him we must submit, as we can not be in their still moire miserable morality, their ^'You wicked Jews tell nothing but false- Jews were already living, which would , .could impossibly know that the fruit is knowledge like Him ; to Him we must sophistical reasoning, their repulsive hoods, arid, if you did not possess certain prove injurious to his oWn subjects ; Not ¦improved by tillage. There was nothing submit the treasures of our observation , twaddle^-in short, all their vicious habits rights and privileges, I would drag you by One voice was heard asserting the rights of ,to. keep or to watch in the ghrden. There and tho fruits of our reflection. - We can and intolerable ways and manners ; and tlj° hair in the mud. Pfefferkorn is a good humanity Or expressing sympathy for thewas plenty for man and beast. Ibn Ezrate not be like Him, hence we can not compre- that, in so clear and palpable a light, that Christian , for he and .his wife often go to Jews who were.thus.to be cast into misery;explanation to this passage, namely, that hend, not define Him. We can-only love even the unlettered could understand* All the Dominicans to make cpnfessiou. . . . . such was the obdurate andbrutalized state .Adam, was there to water the garden, and Him with all our soul, as' Moses teaches; the enemies' .of Jteuchlin—Hoogstraten , Ar- Bo you think that the burgomaster and of the human heart under the culture Ofwatch it, that , the brutes should not come wo can developo, cultivate, enlarge our" nold de Tongern, Ortuin Gratius, Pfeffer- theologians of Cologne are such dances, as tho orthodox Church of the tiines. How-fii and soil it- -is childish, to say the least ; mind to such a greatness, that the desire kom and all their understrappers, Peter that they would appoint him superintend- ever,-as-is usually the case in German con-especially as all the animals were brought awakes in us to become like Elohim ; but Mayer, Wigand, the University Of Paris— ent of the hospital and surveyor of salts, if ventions, the -meeting at Frankfort : onlybefore Adam, and the serpent was in the we loose our paradise, unless wo remain all Avere therein doomed to run thegauntlet. he were not worthy and competent. You resolved to adjourri to a future day (March,garden. T within certain limits, and these limits are They were chastised with stings a!nd scor- say that Pfefferkorn is a ' favorite of the 8) for the purpose of coming to a definiteTherefore, we can adopt only the opinion - well defined in our submission to the will pions, leaving-no spot unhurt. These in- theologians and the burgomaster On ac- conclusion,of Sepurno, who explains that verse 15 lie- and wisdom-of the Most High—a submis- genious satires, full' of sarcasm superior to count of his pretty wife. But that is not The Jews of that region beheld with ter- ' ¦lates back to verse 7, and must be rendered, sion which shall not bo the result of despair that of Aristophanes, spoke with the more true. For the burgomasters have pretty ror the swiftlv-aDnroachinc danger ' for"And tho Lord God took man, and % in our abilities, and a painful, resignation telling effect , since they represented . tho wives of their own, arid thetheologians do though tho German lords and princes' werecaused him to walk about the garden Of t0 dire necessity ;it must be the submis- Dominicans, the Thomists and the doctors not care about women." . . . . generally dilatory and discordant vet inEden, to serve her (his soul) and to guard SI°n J°Llov^,5f gratitude, thaj God has of theology, speaking in their own person, In another of these Letters, Ortuin Gra- the persecution of the Jews they were ol-'her." Then the divine author goes on and gifted his children with sff much under, showing their own, offensive nakedness, tins is gravely asked, " What would be the wavS energetic and unanimous. The Jews,tells us by what means Adam served or standing, that they can see its limits, with and exposing themselves of their o\yn ac- form of the body of a baptized Jew at the therefore, had no alternative but to send acultivated his soul. - sufficient understanding, to comprehend cord, as it were, to the public: pillory of dis- : Resurrection ?" which question is consid- deputation to the Emperor, praving his, -Man is a moral, intellectual and affoo- °.ur dnt}e* and know our hopes of porfec- grace. But this derision of the "XJnen- ered in a subtle, obscenely written theo- graoious maieaty to protect them from thotionate being. These three capacities must tion and happiness, ; of confidence that God lightened " could not stop short of exposing logical dissertation , worthy of the scj iolasti- evil/designs of their respective superiorsbe developed and brought to perfection, has given us all that is necessary to our the moral defects of popery, of the entire cism of the Dominicans. DOth temporal and ecclesiastical . The Ein-This is tho culture of the soul. He is born happmess, that He discloses to our view hierarchical tyranny and the Churchiin gen- All western Europe was convulsed with peror fortunately remembered that thewith these capacities ; still they must be sufficient rays oi the hidden treasures of oral ; the Dominicans themselves, with all laughter on reading those "Letters of the Jews, though subject to various greatercultivated and cherished, and practiced by light and life, to eievate us high and omi- thoir arrogance and ignorance, their las- Unenlightened." In Germany, Italy, and lesser lords, were strictly speaking hisobservation, reflection and action, in order nent above tho creatures of tins Hia realm, civiousness and impudence, being but one France and England, all who understand own imperial property and that their ex-to reach that perfection which man is able It must bo the submission of ' thy whole of the mischievous results and natural ef- Latm laughed or tittered at the style and pulsion from the Empire would cohse-to reach. ' soul " and every thPught thereof. Moses fects of the Catholic regime. Thus, the contents of these self-confessions of the Do- quently be an infringement upon his sov-Among all tho higher excellencies of the and tho author of this chapter of Genesis satirical " Letters of tho Unenlightened " minicans and Scholastics. The nudo vul- ereign rights Maximilian accordinglyhuman mind, the moral feeling is the first may be two persons ; but they are guided operated as a corrosive acid , utterly de- garities, the thick-skulled ignorance, tho hastened to address a letter to the Arch-to ' awake. It beams forth with the-first by one mind. stroying the already foul carcass of the over-wise, conceited folly, the unchaste ex- bishop and Chapter of Mayonce, to allrays of the child's mental dawn. The child ^ Catholic Church. pressions and sentiments—all these ridlcu- secular and spiritual authorities, as also tobecomes inately conscious of the difference Man is also an affectionate being. Affec- The Jews and the Talmud having been ious things and sayings put into the mouth tho several municipal magistrates, stronglyof right and wrong. It knows that certain tion signifies the love of man for a person's tho first to give rise to the Reuchlinian of the Dominicans themselves, presented a condemning their deliberations, and pro-things are right, and others are wrong. It company. Mali is not only a social being— troubles, were, of course, not wanting in strange contrast to tho external dignity and' hibiting their assembling again on the dayknows that obedience is right and disobedi- ho is affectionate, he must love, he is truly these letters. In this way , tho much de- superficial learning of the Order, arid ex- appointed. And so the proposed couvon-eneo is wrong, and this is the fundamental happy only when he loves. As tho moral spised race of the Hebrews became the sub- cited the risibles even of the most serious. Won did not take place. The'Jews of thesentiment of tho moral feeling. feeling and the mental capacities are born ject of public discussion. In tho second It is related that Erasmus was so convulsed respective districts were for the time bo- *Tho first thought in Ad am could only .bo, with him , so he is born with natural affec- letter John Pellifex , A. M., is represented with laughter on reading these Letters, ing, delivered from all danger. But thethat there is a difference between right uud tion, the necessity of love. From the cradle putting a question of conscience to the so- that ho got rid of a painful swelling of tho Archbishop of Mayence, or in his absence,wrong ; that obedience must be right, and to tho grave, under ordiuary circumstances, called spiritual father Ortuin. In visiting throat from which he was suffering at the the Chapter, did not give up agitating thedisobedience wrong. Therefore, tho cul- man loves and is beloved. The relations the fair at Frankfort , he, in company with time. Tne ludicrous comedy played by the subject. Stops were to be taken to influ-ture of tho soul is begun with a law, a com- of parents and offspring, brothers, sisters, a young theologian , passed by two respect- simpletons only united the laughing pub- ence the Emperor to give his consent, atmundmont, (verses 16 and 17.) He was and other members of the family, spouses ablo-looking men dressed in black gowns lie on the side of Reuchlin ; and, whatever last, to the measure of expulsion, his man-made uwaro, in a manner not mysterious and friends, are so general and continual , and monk's hoods ; and, thinking thoy might now be the sentence of the papal date having been issued "at the urgent, ,at nil , that obedience to divine laws is vir- that tlio purson of normal mind and heart were of the clerical profession , he bowed to chair , public opinion had pronounced juclg- untruthful and unfounded importunities oftue, and disobedience is sin and wicked- must always love and bo beloved. Wick- them and took his cap off in token of re- ment upon tho Dominicans. Many 'were the Jews." The enemies of the Jews, thoness. Tho eves of the youthful observed edness may, in many instances, defy this', spec-t. Bat , to his amazement, his com- the guesses as to who wns tho author of friends oi tho Dominicans of Cologne, werecould havo been rivetted first to the trees source of human happiness, but it can punion informed him that thoy were only these Letters. Some thought it was Reuch- still sanguine in tho hope of influencingonly, -whicli produced tho delicious fruits , never utterly destroy it. Miserable as a .lews, at the same time declaring that he lin himself, or Erasmus, or Hutton, or the Emperor against the Jews. But theirIiivory treo pleasant to the sight, and good man without moral sentiments must be , had committed a capital sin, it being idola- some one; or other of the Humanists. To hopes were disappointed. Tho Jews werefor food;" hunce tho commandment cbuld .wretched and helpless as the idiot is, so Irons and contrary to tho first of the Ton tho many quories^as to the author, Hutton not banished for the present. Tho Arch-. only relate to a tree. Tho chief delight the miserable and wretched , and probably only Commandments to bow to a Jow. For, if jocosely replied, "It was God Himself." bishop pf Mayonce prompted not so much

- f^l j fe.es ft50rded WRs concentrated in the de- more so, is the man without love. Tho a Christian pays any respect- to a Jew, he In fact, it was daily becoming more and by benevolent as selfish motives, oven p'or- /r "(1 Ikuous fruit; therefore , the commandment more fully the mora l ami mental capacities acts contrary to tho principles of Christi- more manifest that the controversy in re- mitted newly immigrated Jews to settle in .jyL could relate only to tho oating thereof. of tho mind are developed , tho more pro- unity, and gives hiinself tho semblance of gard to the burning of the "Talmud , begun his diocese granted them the customary ^^Ctf2r*L. !t is perfectly indifferent to our present fonndly wo feel the neccssity 'ol love. a Jew ; whicli might lead tho Jews to boast in so trilling and insignificant a manner, privileges—to lend money-on interest but / -Tfr?* 1\ /i« ]¥ purpose, whether the author of this chapter Therefore, the author of this chapter of that they are bettor than the Christians, had assumed a world-wide significance , in to be subject to his jurisdiction - ail- of B OT.¥ *§/ > nit°nded to. write history, legend or myth ; ' Genesis, after having informed us of the arid becomp the more obdurate in their un- which the will of the few was, in a meas- which however was granted only for a vsf §§£&> when , where or by whom it was composed ; moral and mental development of Adam, belief and contempt of tho Christian re- ure , absorbed in , and made subservient to, certain period and for an annual tax ofJsaJl \¦ CT ^V what the nature of tho tree of knowledge informs us how the dormant affections wore ligiou. [This mode of drawing inferences, tho will of tho community at large. In twelve florins for every Jewish soul. But ' Fx^,