Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by EDWARD I. SEARS, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New-York. I. INFERNAL DIVINITIES, ANCIENT AND MODERN,....... 1. Histoire des practiques superstitieuses. LEBRUN. 2. Commentatio de dæmoniacis a Chriesto, &c. 3. Oriental Illustrations of the Sacred Scriptures, collected from the Customs of the 4. Symbolik und Mythologie der alten Voelker. CREUZER. 5. Historie de l'Ecole d' Alexanderia. 6. Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers of the Colony of Plymouth. 7. De l'Irritation et de la Folie. BRONSSAIS. 8. An Essay on the Demoniaci of the New Testament, By HUGH FARMER. 9. Prices du système theology de Loroastre dans le Zend-Avesta. II. EARLY CHRISTIAN LITERATURE, 1. La Civilization au cinquième Siecle par A. FREDERIC OZANAM. 2, Histoire Universelle de l' Englise chretienne. Par M. MATTER. 3. Histoire de la Chute du Paganism dans l'Occident. Par M. LE COMTE BEUGNOT. 4. Sacred Latin Poetry, chiefly Lyrical, selected and arranged for use; with Notes and Introduction. By RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH, D.D. 5. Where were our Gospels written! An Argument by CONSTANTINE TISCHEN- DERF; with a narrative of the discovery of Sinaitic Manuscript. V. ORANGEISM IN IRELAND; ITS HISTORY AND CHARACTER,. 1. Report: Orange Lodges, Associations or Societies in Ireland. 2. Report: Orange Institutions in Great Britain and the Colonies. 3. Reports from the Select Committes appointed to inquire into the nature, character, extent, and tendency of Orange Lodges, Associations, or Societies in Ireland, with the Minutes of evidence, Appendix and Index. 4. Mr. Hume's Speech in the House of Common, Feb. 23, 1836. 5. Battle of Magheramayo. JAMES HENDERSON. 6. Mr. Berwick's Report to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, on the occurrences which took place in the district of Castlewellen, on the occasion of an Orange Pro- 79 VI. GEORGE WILLIAM FREDERICK HEGEL,.... 1. Georg Wilhelm Frederich Hegel's Leben, beschriben durch Karl Rosenkranz (The THE NATIONAL QUARTERLY REVIEW. No. XXXV. DECEMBER, 1868. ART. I.-1. Histoire des practiques superstitieuses. LEBRUN: Paris. 2. Commentatio de doemoniacis a Chriesto, &c.: Jena. 3. Oriental Illustrations of the Sacred Scriptures, collected from the Customs of the Hindoos: London. 4. Symbolik und Mythologie der alten Voelker. 5. Historie de l'École d' Alexandria: Paris. CREUZER: Berlin. 6. Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers of the Colony of Plymouth: London. 7. De l'Irritation et de la Folie. BRONSSAIS: Paris. 8. An Essay on the Demoniaci of the New Testament. By HUGH FARMER: London. 9. Prices du système theology de Loroastre dans le Zend-Avesta: Paris. 10. History of Buddhism. By E. UPHAM : London. 11. Traductio du livre chinois des Recompense et de Peines: Paris. THERE is no idea more ancient than that of an evil spirit against whose machinations man should be constantly on his guard. Under one name or other all nations, from the most barbarous to the most civilized, have acknowledged the existence of such a being. Even those who could not understand, or believe that the universe is the work of an all-wise and beneficent Creator, have readily accepted the dogma of VOL. XVIII.-NO. XXXV. 1 a malignant genius who delights only in mischief. Pagans, Jews, Christians, Mahomedans, Brahmins, and Buddhists, have all agreed in this faith, if in nothing else. Many nations, ancient and modern, have changed their religion; none have surrendered the evil one. All have clung to him with a tenacity which, if it is not laudable, is at least remarkable. It is true that there have been individuals in every age who have denied the existence of any such being; nor does the present age form an exception; but we do not hesitate to say that let the investigator travel whither he may he will find three-fourths of all he meets implicit believers in devil or dæmon, no matter what other dogma they may receive or reject. As we are not theologians we will not take it upon us to determine which are right or wrong, although we may remark in passing, that if the voice of the majority must be received as the correct one, nothing could be more impious or treasonable than to deny the existence of the being who commenced his depredations on mankind in the garden of Eden. For our part we have no ambition either to condemn, or refute a dogma which has been taught by the most pious and learned Christians for nearly two thousand years. It is well to remember that if human malefactors had once a good character, infernal malefactors had the same; and this is one of the most remarkable features in the history of the evil one, who has been known in all parts of the world by so many different names. Sometimes the being who was worshiped as a God in one country was feared and detested as a devil in another*; some nations regarded dæmons as beneficent beings while others regarded them as malignant beings. It would seem that their conduct must have deteriorated gradually, for we find that for many ages the proportion of mankind which regarded them as evil spirits continued steadily to increase, whereas that which regarded them as beneficent spirits continued to diminish in a still larger ratio, *Fulgence, Mythologia, p. 712. |