FOR PYTHAGORAS. mong the almost infinite variety of hypotheses and A opinions concerning Christianity and a Future State, which have sprung up since the Protestant Refor mation, no one appears to possess a more consistent character, or to afford more consolation to doubting and wavering scepticks than a New Sect, which is at length spreading fast on the Continent, among the most able and learned men, and which has also some strong advocates in Great Britain. This sect of Christian Philosophers have been called Pythagoreans, Platonists, Bramins and a hundred other names: while many of them had never heard of these sages of antiquity, when they put forth their own notions respecting the Transmigration of Mind, after death, from one body to another. As this doctrine is very ancient among the Bramins, and is believed by the Hindoos, so we shall give a succint account of it, and of the application thereof to that of the New Christian Society of Metempsychosians. As their name implies, they beleive in the Trans migration of Souls, as well as the Indians; but in a AN APOLOGY FOR THE DOCTRINE OF PYTHAGORAS AS COMPATIBLE WITH THAT OF CHRISTIANITY WITH AN ACCOUNT OF A NEW SECT OF CHRISTIANS BY THE HON. FOREIGN SEC. TO THE ANIMALS FRIEND SOCIETY. BOULOGNE SUR MER PRINTED BY CHARLES AIGRE, 3, RUE DES VIEILLARDS. 1858,9. 110. C. 43. INDEX OF CONTENTS. PAGE. 3 5 Apology for Pythagoras. Modes of punishment hereafter Quakers and their laws. Creed of the New Sect of Pythagorean Christians Quotations from learned writers. Unanswerable Argument for the Future Lives of Animals . An erroneous Translation of parts of the Bible The Author's opinion of the New Doctrine Natural arguments for future life, confirmed by Christianity FOR PYTHAGORAS. A mong the almost infinite variety of hypotheses and opinions concerning Christianity and a Future State, which have sprung up since the Protestant Refor mation, no one appears to possess a more consistent character, or to afford more consolation to doubting and wavering scepticks than a New Sect, which is at length spreading fast on the Continent, among the most able and learned men, and which has also some strong advocates in Great Britain. This sect of Christian Philosophers have been called Pythagoreans, Platonists, Bramins and a hundred other names while many of them had never heard of these sages of antiquity, when they put forth their own notions respecting the Transmigration of Mind, after death, from one body to another. As this doctrine is very ancient among the Bramins, and is believed by the Hindoos, so we shall give a succint account of it, and of the application thereof to that of the New Christian Society of Metempsychosians. As their name implies, they beleive in the Trans migration of Souls, as well as the Indians; but in a |