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I would recommend the perusal of this “Fragment” to your readers. The grandeur and fascinating beauty of the picture there presented to the mind leaves one in the state of being lifted to a vast altitude, and gazing at an infinite prospect, lost in reverential awe and intense admiration, mingled with the deepest joy, and a wholesome sense of one’s own littleness. In contemplating the vastness of this mere sketch, human life becomes extended to an infinitude of grandeur, worthy of its Divine Originator, and the small schemes of creation believed in by some o our more orthodox friends sink into puerile insignificance.

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{{Style S-Small capitals|From}} Sydney he [Joseph Cook] proceeded to Melbourne, where he again delivered his stereotyped lectures, and there once more refused to step out of the ring within which he has entrenched himself. A deputation of gentlemen awaited on Mr. Cook’s agent, to request him to meet Mr. Thomas Walker in discussion, Mr. Cook sent a reply to his agent, the slanderous calumny and insulting language of which no gentleman ''except Joseph Cook'' would be the author. The following correspondence appeared in the Melbourne Age, August 5th, 1882.:—

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{{Style P-Signature custom|Melbourne, Australia,|2=<span style="padding-left:2em;">‘July 31, 1882.</span>|1 style=plain|2 style=plain|align=left|shift=0}}

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{{Style P-Quote|1=<div style="text-align:right;">Melbourne, August 2, 1882.</div>