SHORT PAPERS 297 



to every scientific and philosophical movement of our age; but, alike as Christians, 

 as students of history, psychology, and philosophy, we must repudiate the 

 assumption that an institution which incorporated in its life the beauty and 

 wisdom of Athens, the strength of the polity of Rome, which realized the sublime 

 hopes of Zion, which initiated every truly progressive movement of modern 

 history, does not possess in an eminent degree, now as in the past, positive and 

 constructive genius for organizing the highest intellectual as well as the highest 

 moral and religious interests of the human race. 



