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which include alike the inward and the outward life of man ; within 

 which lie the real instruments of his training, and where he is to learn 

 how to think, to act, to be. 



I will now proceed to notice briefly the last page of Professor 

 Huxley's paper, in which he drops the scientist and becomes simply 

 the man. I read it with deep interest, and with no small sympathy. 

 In touching upon it, I shall make no reference (let him forgive me the 

 expression) to his " damnatory clauses," or to his harmless menace, so 

 deftly conveyed through the prophet Micah, to the public peace. 



The exaltation of Religion as against Theology is at the present 

 day not only so fashionable, but usually so domineering and contempt- 

 uous, that I am grateful to Professor Huxley for his frank statement 

 (p. 459) that Theology is a branch of science ; nor do I in the smallest 

 degree quarrel with his corttention that Religion and Theology ought 

 not to be confounded. We may have a great deal of Religion with 

 very little Theology ; and a great deal of Theology with very little 

 Religion. I feel sure that Professor Huxley must observe with 

 pleasure how strongly practical, ethical, and social is the general 

 tenor of the three synoptic Gospels ; and how the appearance in the 

 world of the great doctrinal Gospel was reserved to a later stage, as if 

 to meet a later need, when men had been toned anew by the morality 

 and, above all, by the life of our Lord. 



I am not, therefore, writing against him, when I remark upon the 

 habit of treating Theology with an affectation of contempt. It is 

 nothing better, I believe, than a mere fashion ; having no more refer- 

 ence to permanent principle than the mass of ephemeral fashions that 

 come from Paris have with the immovable types of Beauty. Those 

 who take for the burden of their song " Respect Religion, but despise 

 Theology," seem to me just as rational as if a person were to say 

 " Admire the trees, the plants, the flowers, the sun, moon, or stars, 

 but despise Botany, and despise Astronomy." Theology is ordered 

 knowledge ; representing in the region of the intellect what religion 

 represents in the heart and life of man. And this religion, Mr. 

 Huxley says a little further on, is summed up in the terms of the 

 prophet Micah (vi. 8) : " Do justly, and love mercy, and walk humbly 

 with thy God." I forbear to inquire whether every addition to this — 

 such, for instance, as the Beatitudes — is {N. C. p. 460) to be pro- 

 scribed. But I will not dispute that in these words is conveyed the 

 true ideal of religious discipline and attainment. They really import 

 that identification of the will which is set out with such wonderful 

 force in the very simple words of the " Paradiso " — 



In la sua volontade 6 nostra pace, 

 and which no one has more beautifully described than (I think) Charles 

 Lamb : " lie gave his heart to the Purifier, his will to the Will that 

 governs the universe." It may be we shall find that Christianity itself 

 is in som^ sort a scafilolding, and that the final building is a pure and 



