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Show Mat !..! Cap tli.mn,. There are many of ua who all 11 fall to oanprehewl bow aay rational being, how tl Almighty hlmeelf, could feel honored by the uiiuoverlag ef n human creature', cranlnmi end 1 Atn old faahlonedenongh to lw reminded of certain hiatortcal aay Inge regarding the dofBntr of head courtage. Oeorga Tux need toaalc If the ery Tuila did not mock nt the Cbrlatiana In tlitlr pruvrib which Mldthet "tbeChria. tlanaatnd ranch of their time In pull ing elf ilieir hata nod iilUMting their Uire beida to i a h other. " Hla contemporary, (lerrge Keith, wrotet "Tha ireacliera of (lermany, and eepacially nt Hamburg, which 1 lunaacenwlth myesea, bw rich gntea Iwrtlallty In their Mimtatlooa that ct in-monly in-monly they have tio cai.. under their luita. Tho poor, excel t citriordlnarlly, they paaa by without any notice, to ttlicra they doff tho hat, uthera more rich lu the world they ulnte with dot flag tho liat aud one of tho capat nnd to tleuaa whom they moat honor, or rather flatter, they doff the hat and both cape." And did not our V. IVnn iy, in a moro Mnoua tlm "Tho flrat nnl moat preening motive upon our I lilla to decline tho pracyco of theea preeent cuatoma of pulling off the hat, lau lug the body or knee, and phlng people gaudy title, and epltu.ta In our aaluta-tloui aaluta-tloui and adlreie.ee, waa that aarur, alght aud .ne tluit (lrl, by Ida light and rplrit, hu given ut of tho Chlietlan worlla apnataay from Ooil. and the ciiimi and effect, of tliat great and lamentable la-mentable difectlou." American IN'ott. and Qneriea. |