MEMOIRS. 



that the personality of God is, now and for us, as 

 true a datum as His immanence or infinity. He 

 who had done science such splendid and generous 

 justice refused absolutely to grant to her shall we 

 not rather say, to credit her true self with demand- 

 ing ? that " ethics should become a department of 

 biology," and prophesied the day when biology 

 should receive light thrown back from a true moral 

 science : 



" Christianity is committed to no theory of the universe, 

 but it is committed to a belief which evolution as at present 

 understood is unwilling, or rather unable to justify the 

 belief, namely, that God is a Personal Being, and in His 

 innermost nature a God of Love, that the world is a moral 

 world. ... It is the Christian's belief in progress and his 

 knowledge gained from experience which justify him in 

 saying that evolution cannot be the last word." 



Nothing is more clearly a part of Moore's teach- 

 ing than that we must often hold truths of which 

 we do not yet know the synthesis, that we must 

 constantly draw distinctions where we are unable 

 to draw sharp lines. 



Such were some of the features of his thought ; 

 but his thought was but a part of the life of his 

 spirit. The temper of that spirit cannot perhaps 

 be better defined than in his own words : 



" Purity, humility, and gentleness are notes of the scholars 

 of the truth." " Only when we become ' as a little child ' 

 can we hope to enter into the kingdom of the truth. . . . 



