His lofty realism was subversive of popular superstitions, when logically carried out.

The sect of Anabaptists, whose wild opinions were subversive of all principles of social order and every sentiment of natural decency, had its birth in Germany, and found many proselytes in the Netherlands.

Convinced, however, that the retaining of their fellow-creatures in bondage was not only irreconcilable with the principles of Christianity, but subversive of the rights of human nature, they determined upon the emancipation of these.

Yet even so moderate and reasonable an enlargement of the franchise created astonishment, and was regarded by the opponents as subversive of the British Constitution; and not without reason, since it threw political power into the hands of the middle classes instead of into those of the aristocracy.

It was agitated by the principles of the Levellers, tending to reduce all to an equality; by the doctrines of the Fifth-monarchy men, subversive of civil government; by religious theorists, the pretended champions of liberty of conscience, who condemned an established ministry as Babylonish and antichristian; [Sidenote a: A.D. 1654.

It was subversive of the act of oblivion formerly procured by Cromwell himself, which pretended to abolish the memory of all past offences; contrary to natural justice, because it involved the innocent and guilty in the same punishment; and productive [Footnote 1: State Trials, v. 767-790.]

On the other hand, a grand jury should aid in bringing to justice persons who indulge in practices subversive of public peace, but which individuals are disinclined to prosecute, such as gambling.

"It is important as a security against two opposite tendencies of opinion, each of which is equally subversive of the true import of the constitution.

But a contract the carrying out of which is recognized as subversive of justice, morality, or the general welfare, is illegal, and therefore void.

"The history of the last years, and especially the painful events of June 28th, have demonstrated the existence of a subversive movement in Servia whose aim it is to separate certain territories from the Austro-Hungarian monarchy.

For the Address goes on: '... principles destructive of the rights of all independent States, which strike at the root of the British Constitution, and are subversive of His Majesty's legitimate title to the throne.'

The Golden Rule and slavery are mutually subversive of each other.

Mutual service and slaverylike light and darkness, life and deathare directly opposed to, and subversive of, each other.

Is not the precept under hand naturally subversive of every system and every form of slavery?

Justice and equality on the one hand, and the chattel principle on the other, are naturally subversive of each otherproof clear and decisive that the correlates, masters and servants, cannot here be rendered slaves and owners, without the grossest absurdity and the greatest violence.

Every body knows that any such requisitions and American slavery are flatly opposed to and directly subversive of each other.

It is at war with the government of God, and subversive of the foundations of morality.

The next anodyne was prescribed by Mr. Patton, of Va., but its effect was to rouse from their stupor some of the Northern Legislatures, and to induce them to denounce his remedy as "a usurpation of power, a violation of the Constitution, subversive of the fundamental principles of the government, and at war with the prerogatives of the people.

Religion and education were formerly opposed as subversive of the security of property; now they are in the most direct manner encouraged as its best support.

It is at war with the government of God, and subversive of the foundations of morality.

Now it is difficult to imagine a principle more utterly subversive of all the duties of rulers, the rights of citizens, and the charities of private life.

I found a dozen roundabouts drinking and making free with the liquors of the cabin, and all the officers prisoners forwarda state of things, as you will allow, a little subversive of decency as well as decorum!"

At all costs the output of salubrious and sedative fiction must be maintained if only as an antidote to the subversive and revolutionary literature now freely disseminated among the proletariat.

Subversive reflections.

Mr. BEGBIE'S book is unfair in its emphasis, but it is not fanatical or subversive, and I can see no decent reason why it should have been banned.