MEMOIRS. 



in the phases of alliance between Christian beliefs 

 and the rest of human thought, are all there in full 

 activity. But the power of it comes from the fact 

 that all this material is passed through and fused 

 by a mind which in an eminent degree was always 

 itself, always keenly conscious of the issues of 

 truth, and which with all its delight in dialectic, all 

 its ingenuity and brightness, never treated any 

 piece of knowledge, any subject of debate, without 

 a thoroughness and sense of intellectual responsi- 

 bility, due to the remembrance that it was part of 

 a whole of truth which influences in every direction 

 the whole of life. It may not be an unprofitable 

 suggestion to any one who wishes to have a lesson 

 in the way in which such a Christian thinker as 

 Moore was realizes this oneness of truth in the de- 

 partments which we necessarily, but yet shallowly, 

 divide as spiritual, intellectual, etc., that he should 

 read consecutively "The Christian Doctrine of 

 God" and the "Holy Week Addresses." And, 

 whatever the effect upon him, he will hardly regret 

 the suggestion. 



But what, we still need to ask, was the character- 

 istic quality of his work alas ! that we must add, 

 his distinctive bequest ? We may offer for answer 

 that it was the rare combination in him of the 

 deductive and dogmatic mind with openness to 

 every touch of new thought ; a combination in 



