Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 76, No. 468, October, 1854

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No. CCCCLXVIII.      OCTOBER, 1854.      Vol. LXXVI.
Let us bear in mind the above passage, pregnant with solemnising reflection, while dealing with the question before us; always remembering that it is one purely speculative, however interesting, however exciting, to imaginative persons; but to weak and superficial ones—to those of unsettled opinions—capable of becoming mischievous.