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students who are too high-minded to care for popu- 

 larity themselves. 



True, if we have an intelligent belief in those 

 Creeds and those Scriptures which are committed to 

 our keeping, then our philosophy cannot be that which 

 is just now in vogue. But all we have to do, I believe, 

 is to wait. Nominalism, and that " Sensationalism " 

 which has sprung from nominalism, are running fast to 

 seed ; Comtism seems to me its supreme effort : after 

 which the whirligig of Time may bring round its 

 revenges ; and Realism, and we who own the Realist 

 creeds, may have our turn. Only wait. When a grave, 

 able, and authoritative philosopher explains a mother's 

 love of her newborn babe, as Professor Bain has done, 

 in a really eloquent passage of his book on the 

 "Emotions and the Will" (Second Edition, pp. 78, 79), 

 then the end of that philosophy is very near; and 

 an older, simpler, more human, and, as I hold, more 

 philosophic explanation of that natural phenomenon, 

 and of all others, may get a hearing. 



Only wait ; and fret not yourselves, else shall you 

 be moved to do evil. Remember the saying of the 

 wise man : ' ' Go not after the world. She turns on her 

 axis j and if thou stand still long enough she will turn 

 round to thee." 



THE END. 



CHABLES DICKENS AND EVANS, CBYSTAL PALACE PEESS. 



