admires how, in these days of steam-traveling, printing, and telegramming, when "many run to and fro," and when "knowledge" has been "increased," human credulity will display itself in the same glaring colors which it wore ere the diffusion of knowledge became a part of social labor. The philosophic observer will detect in it a notable example of how mens agitat molem, the "powerful personal influence of personal character," and the "effect that may be produced by a single mind inflexibly applied to the pursuit of a single object;" and another proof that "it is easier to extend the belief of the multitude than to contract it a circumstance which proceeds from the false but prevalent notion that too much belief is at least an error on the right side." The statist will consider it in its aspect as a new system of colonization. In America the politician will look with curiosity at a despotism thriving in the centre of a democracy, and perhaps with apprehension at its future efforts, in case of war or other troubles, upon the destinies of the whilom Great Republic. In England, which principally supplies this number of souls, men, instead of regarding it as one of many safety-valves, will be reminded of their obligations toward the classes by which Mormonism is fed, and urged to the improvement of education, religion, and justice. And I hope to make it appear that the highly-colored social peculiarities of the New Faith have been used as a tool by designing men to raise up enmity against a peaceful, industrious, and law-abiding people, whose whole history has been a course of cruel persecution, which, if man really believed in his own improvement, would be a disgrace to a self-styled enlightened age. The prejudice has naturally enough extended from America to England. In 1845, when the Mormons petitioned for permission to retire to Vancouver's Island, they met with
By Elder John Davies.
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Epistol Cyffredinol Cyntaf (First General Epistle of the first Presidency), 1d.
Traethawd ar Wyrthian (Treatise on Miracles), 1d.
Etto Adolygiad, etc., Chwech Rhifyn (Do. in reply to Anti-Mormon Lectures). Six Nos. (Each No. 1d.)
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Darlithiau ar Ffydd, gan Joseph Smith (Joseph Smith's Lectures on Faith), 4d.
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Traethawd ar Fedydd (Treatise on Baptism), 1d.
Corff Crist, neu yr Eglwys (The Body or Church of Christ), 1d.
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