To the Editor of the Sig,—I have only to-day aeon your issu of the 30th ultimo, or should earlier ha sought to disabueo your mind of a miscon ception of my thought, and your readers, of misrendering of my words in your notice of my "Introduction to " Retrospect," &e. For, in the first place, you have touched a Very sensitive chord in imputing to me the invasion of a national spirit into my said tion; and in the second place, you given color to the charge by a misrenug of the paragraph you quote from and by omitting to notice the qualification of meaning afforded by the context.
Tappeal, therefore, to that boasted "fair play," that accords the opportunity of defence to every one. It is the more needful for me to do so, because it so huppene that the third of the series of my Lectures (whereof the one you have thus noticed is the introduction), is about being published; and that
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