Prudent man, making a choice of what errors he would condemn, or bear, would think the superstition which binds, more tolerable than that which demolishes; that which adorns a country, than that which deforms it; that which endows, than that which plunders; that which disposes to mistaken beneficence, than that which stimulates to real injustice; that which leads a man to refuse to himself lawful pleasures, than that which snatches from others the scanty subsistence of their self-denial. ''Such, I think, is nearly the state of the question between the ancient founders of monks to superstition, and the superstition of the pretended Philosophers of the hour.'' ''When men are encouraged to go into a certain mode of life, by the existing laws, and protected in that mode, as in a lawful occupation; when they have accomodated all their ideas, and all their habits to it; when the law had long made their adherence to its rules a ground of reputation; and their departure from them, a ground of disgrace, and even of penalty, I am sure it is unjust in legislature.'' In the afternoon paid Mr. Colenso a visit, and remained there for the night. ''By an arbitary act. to offer a sudden violence to their minds and their feelings; forcibly to degrade them from their state and condition; and to stigmatise with shame and infamy, that character, and those customs, which before had made the measure of their happiness and honour. ''If to this, be added an expulsion from their habitations, and a confiscation of all their goods. I am not sagacious enough to discover how this despotic sport, made of the feelings, consciences, prejudices, and properties of men, can be discriminated from the rankest tyranny.'' Had a long conversation with Mr. Colenso, respecting native customs, in reference to