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I confess that, for my part, I do regard these words of the oath [which Bradlaugh had called an unmeaning form] as an utterly unmeaning form--(Opposition cries of 'Oh, oh')--utterly and absolutely an unmeaning form. To me they are just the same superstitious incantation--('Hear, hear,' laughter, 'Oh, oh,' and 'Order')--as the trash of any Mumbo-Jumbo among African savages. (Renewed laughter, cries of 'Oh, oh,' and 'Order.') Why do hon. gentlemen say 'Oh, oh'? Are they aware that there are many in this House who regard these words as a blasphemous form? ('Hear, hear.') I say I regard them as an unmeaning form.
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is thus stamped once for all as a tissue of the worst hypocrisy; and the Tory leader and all his men stand convicted of a course of dissimulation as cowardly as it was shameless. They would attack the