Nature

tells him to take reason for his guide: Religion says it is a corrupt and faithle guide, implanted by a treacherous god, to mislead his creatures, Nature calls on him to seek labour and just ambition, and to be brave, active, and industrious: Religion says, ‘be meek and poor in spirit,’ live in retirement, busy thyself with prayers and ceremonies, doing nothing for thyself or others. Blush not even for thy crimes or vices, but go to thy god, or to his priests, and jvash away thy sins with prayers and offerings.” The Church tried to suppre such; teachers by force, and then by argument. It succeeded for a time, but Truth can only be conquered by brute force; and the world rejoiced at the centenary of this great teacher. The Encyclopedists started a new era of European thought on true lines—the education of the people; and to-day, after many throes, the religion that they taught is, perhaps, the real religion of the best and most cultivated men and women. Dido. Eli a. The legendary foundre of Carthage in the 9th century, B.c.; but probably the consort of the Syrian god Dad or Ha-dad [or perhaps from Dida “to wander,’ Ep.}. She was Eli a or Alitta, “the gode ,” descended from the Tyrian Ba’al; and fled when her brother Pygmalion murdered her husband.