text:  Without venturing to affirm so wholesale a proposition which necessarily includes in its censure professors and professions _par excellence_ unsecular and liberal we may be permitted in charity to express our regret that the rewards apportioned to good men in heaven are not bestowed upon those in whom the selfish principle is most rampant instead of being strictly reserved for others in whom it is least influential; since it is more pleasing to consider celestial joys in connexion with humanity at large than with an infinitesimal minority of mortals