MEMOIRS. 



Nothing better could be desired for the younger 

 men of our time, clerical or lay, than that they 

 should read and re-read what he has said of this 

 in the opening pages of his essay on " The Doctrine 

 of God," noticing as they do so how deeply Moore 

 realized that such reverence for the different 

 sources of truth, such attempt "both to keep and 

 claim " implied " struggle " which " will need the 

 utmost effort moral and intellectual." His firm 

 faith did not send him into these matters "with 

 a light heart." It belonged to the habit of mind 

 thus trained in the discipline of reverence to our 

 several sources of truth, that while he felt the 

 speculative necessity of unity " philosophy is 

 nothing if it does not completely unify know- 

 ledge ; " " religion and philosophy both demand 

 that God shall fill the whole region of thought and 

 feeling" he could quite firmly maintain such 

 practical dualism, such parallelism of thought as 

 in her present state reason must submit to. He 

 absolutely refused to explain spirit in terms of 

 matter. He adhered quite firmly to the distinc- 

 tion between " revelation " and nature, even at the 

 time that he was tracing or claiming freedom to 

 trace the natural history of revelation, or at least 

 of the antecedents and development of revelation. 

 He knew "the difference between the religion of 

 Israel and all other religions" to be "a difference 

 not merely of degree, but of kind." He contended 



