depth and comprehensive variety, that find no parallel in the Church of Rome, whose only approved philosophy, indeed may be said to be the scholastic Aristotelian. The advantage of all this to the Protestant theology is at least so much, that it has become more scientific. A like aspect of things is presented to us, in the sphere of the Arts and Polite Literature. These too, since the Reformation, have emancipated themselves more or less from the Church. If we except our sacred hymns and chorals,
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