from all animal food for three months. I would hardly answer a question for fear of speaking an idle word: I seemed to bemoan my former miscarriages very earnestly, and sometimes with tears: in short, I became an Ascetic, and endeavoured, as far as my situation would permit, to renounce society, that I might avoid temptation.” This reformation, it seems, continued for more than two years. But he adds, “it was a poor religion: it left me in many respects under the power of sin; and, so far as it prevailed,