V. 



A CRUMB FOR THE "MODERN SYMPOSIUM." 



No one to whom the question of man's destiny is 

 a matter of grave speculative concern can have read, 

 without serious and solemn interest, the discussion 

 lately called forth in England by Mr. Frederic 

 Harrison's essay on " The Soul and Future Life." l 

 In no way, perhaps, could the darkness of incompre- 

 hensibility which enshrouds the problem be more 

 thoroughly demonstrated than by the candid pre- 

 sentation of so many diverse views by ten writers of 

 very different degrees of philosophic profundity, but 

 all of them able and fair-minded, and all of them 

 actuated each in his own way by a spirit of reli- 

 gious faith. This last clause will no doubt seem 



1 "A Modern Symposium," The Nineteenth Century, 1877, i. 623, 

 832 ; ii. 329, 497. The articles are all reproduced in America, in The 

 Popular Science Monthly Supplement, Nos. I, 2, 6, and 7, and have 

 been published in book form at Toronto, Canada. 1878. 



