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He says, " Huxley, in ' Lay Sermons,' says that faith 

 has been proved a * cardinal sin ' by science. Now this 

 is true enough of credulity, superstition, etc., and 

 science has done no end of good in developing our 

 ideas of method, evidence, etc. But this is all on the 

 side of intellect * Faith ' is not touched by such facts 

 or considerations. And what a terrible hell science 

 would have made of the world, if she had abolished the 

 ' spirit of faith,' even in human relations." 



In the days of his apostasy he " took it for granted," 

 he says on page 164, " that Christianity was played 

 out." When once his eyes were reopened he vied witli 

 Paul himself in recognizing the superior quality of 

 love. On page 163 he quoted the eloquent lines of 

 Bourdillon : 



The night has a thousand eyes, 



And the day but one ; 

 Yet the light of a whole world dies 



With the setting sun. 



The mind has a thousand eyes, 



And the heart but one ; 

 Yet the light of a whole life dies 



When love is done. 



Having quoted this noble sentiment he adds: " Love 

 is known to be all this. How great then, is Christian- 

 ity, as being the religion of love, and causing men to 

 believe both in the cause of love's supremacy and the 

 infinity of God's love to man." 



But Romanes still clung to Evolution and, so far as 

 his book discloses, his mind would never allow his 

 heaxt to commune with Darwin's far-away God, whose 



