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III. The First Cause is inexorable and pitiless. 



IV. It looks with favour on the learned Dives, not on the 

 poor and ignorant Lazarus. 



Y. Physical welfare and happiness are the summum 

 lonum. 



VI. Security, wealth, culture, and sympathy are the only 

 rational objects of pursuit. 



VII. All aspirations or efforts after Divine things the 



love of God or beatitude in a future life are simple waste of 

 time, if not worse, and are fit only for lunatics. 



VIII. Knowledge of all such subjects is impossible to us. 

 If we were to pursue the inquiry from the pontiffs down 



to the acolyths and ostiarii of the non-theistic other deda . 

 hierarchy, far more exaggerated expressions could rations - 

 easily be produced, tending to drive further home the prin 

 ciples insinuated by their leaders. Thus Mr. Barratt, in his 

 Physical Ethics, tells us nakedly that &quot; no pleasure is bad, 

 except when it means pain,&quot; and that &quot; the good is plea 

 sure.&quot; Mr. Winwood Eeade, a friend and ardent disciple 

 of Mr. Darwin, very pithily states the ultimate conclusions 

 of his recent work, which deals with so wide a field, and is 

 entitled the &amp;lt; Martyrdom of Man. He therein tells us: 

 &quot; God-worship is idolatry ; prayer is useless ; the soul is not 

 immortal; there are no rewards, and there are no punish 

 ments in a future state.&quot; Of course Mr. Keade fully adopts 

 Mr. Darwin s views as to the bestiality of man ; and indeed 

 almost, though quite involuntarily, caricatures the teaching 

 of his master regarding our ape-origin. 



Such crude views, &quot; le rationalisme grassier&quot; and its gro 

 tesque pretensions to intellectual eminence, have been thus 

 characterised by Mr. James Stirling :* 



&quot; There was a time/ says Hegel, when a man who did not believe 

 in ghosts or the devil was named a philosopher ! But an advanced 

 thinker/ to these distinctions negative of the unseen, adds what is 

 positive of the seen an enlightened pride in his father the monkey ! 



* See Fortnightly Review, for November 1871, p. 539. 



