of our minds are different.  The great Architect willed that it should be thus; why, we presume not to know, but so it is.  And then moreover, our physical training, mental, moral and religious culture; together with climate and a variety of other external and internal causes, have all contributed more or less in shaping our opinions, and giving a peculiar cast to our minds.  Thus it is, that we are all looking through different glasses, and it is no wonder that we do not all see objects just alike.  Objects must necessarily present themselves to us, in different hues and colors.  Some are so accustomed to view all objects through a microscope, that they have no just conception of the real magnitude of any body.  Exaggeration is their forte—­in this they excel.  Their towering minds soar above common comprehension and common sense, and their fertile imaginations are ever ready to conjure up spectres, ghosts and hobgoblins; or otherwise, where others see a mouse, they behold an elephant; and to their distorted visions, a mole-hill is magnified into a mountain.  We look in vain to such writers for a plain, unvarnished, common sense statement of facts, for sound arguments, or logical deductions.  Such authors have nothing to do with facts, or things as they exist among us.  Their imaginations are ever ready to furnish facts, on which to base their preconceived inferences and conclusions.  They were cast in a fictitious mould, and works of fiction they have read, until their minds can run in no other channel.  Their mental vision seizes an object, and they pursue it with an enthusiasm that borders on insanity.  Onward, and upward their flight; blind and deaf—­utterly insensible to all surrounding objects.  The object of pursuit is their “all in all;” and every thing must be sacrificed for its attainment.  In their view, there is no other object or interest worthy of a moment’s consideration in earth, or heaven.  Their religion too, is of a peculiar cast.  They are frequently very religious in their own way.  In their estimation, the very essence of piety, the sum total of all religion consists in the advancement of some one benevolent object.  Above, beneath, beyond the attainment of this, there is no religion, no virtue.  Every thing must not only be brought into requisition, in order to its attainment; but the end must be attained in their own way, and according to their own notions; or otherwise it might as well be left undone.  In nine eases out of ten, though the object of pursuit is a laudable one, yet so ill-judged and injudicious are their plans, that if carried out, they will result in more evil than good.  The plainest and most obvious declarations of the Bible, if they contravene their favorite theories or doctrines, are to them unmeaning twaddle; though they are always ready to press the good book into their service, so far as they are able by forced constructions of detached passages, to give plausibility to their own visionary opinions and projects.