158 ON NOVEL OPINIONS Verily Thou art a God that hidest Thyself." We are not called upon to unravel intricacies, but to hold fast the form of sound words. While to the ill-informed these new teachers appear profound be- cause they are unintelligible, they re- mind those of better judgment of cer- tain animals, who, burrowing in shallow ground, just beneath the surface of the earth, fancy they are deep only because they are dark. Many a metaphysical reformer, by the manner of conducting his system, so ex- poses and defeats his own cause, as to resemble in fate, though we say not with any similarity of intention, the Neapo- litan atheist Vanini, who, with eleven others of the same class, (we presume the number to be a match for the twelve apostles,) endeavoured to establish a re- gular college of infidelity. The object was nearly the same with that of the late atheistical school in France ; and by having the priority of two centuries, they
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