Note 236 — Chapter XII · THE BARONET IS RELIEVED.—A CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY. (continued 2)
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It is, however, something more than a hypothesis. The confirmation it receives from the fact that since the prevalence amongst so large a portion of mankind of an uniformity of rite and dogma, and the universality of brotherhood occasioned thereby, what seemed to be obstacles have become means of intercommunion, to such an extent that the whole World has become, as it were, one vast city, gives it the force of a demonstration.