THE Lectures contained in this Volume form the Second Course delivered before the Young Men's Christian Association in London in the winter of 1846-47, with the exception of one on Palestine, by the Rev. George Fisk, LL.B., now Vicar of Great Malvern, which was not reported at the time, and of which he has now no notes.

Dr. Archer's Lecture he has kindly reproduced from memory; that of the Rev. Samuel Martin is printed from his own MS., obligingly supplied for the purpose.

The remainder are reprinted from the reports published at the time, with very slight alterations; for, as some of the gifted lecturers are now no more, it has been deemed better to issue the Lectures just as they were delivered, than to have only a portion of them revised and adapted to the circumstances of the present time.

LONDON, October 1864.

CONTENTS.

BRITISH INDIA. BY REV. W. ARTHUR, M.A.,

PHYSICAL, MORAL, AND INTELLECTUAL EFFECTS OF PROTRACTED

LABOUR. BY THE LATE REV. HENRY HUGHES, M.A., .

DRUIDISM, THE ANCIENT RELIGION OF BRITAIN, CONTRASTED WITH

CHRISTIANITY. BY REV. GEORGE SMITH,

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PATRIARCHAL CIVILISATION.

BY REV. JOHN STOUGHTON, .

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THE HISTORY AND INFLUENCE OF LITERATURE. BY REV. JOHN

POINTS OF SIMILARITY BETWEEN JUDAISM AND ROMANISM. BY THE

LATE REV. JOSIAS WILSON,

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THEATRICAL AMUSEMENTS. BY REV. J. B. BENNETT, M.D.,

ON THE ORIGIN, PROGRESS, AND MORAL EFFECTS OF THE CRUSADES

TO THE HOLY LAND. BY REV. DANIEL MOORE, M.A.,

THE UNITY OF THE SPECIES. BY REV. THOMAS ARCHER, D.D.,

THE TABERNACLE OF ISRAEL. BY REV. SAMUEL MARTIN,

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VOL. II.

BRITISH INDIA.

BY

THE REV. W. ARTHUR.