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the result of that Creator's revelation of Himself. The ancient literature of 

 the nations, and the records that are being disentombed from the long- 

 forgotten mounds of Eastern cities, are to furnish, especially in their 

 confirmation of the Jewish and Christian Scriptures, the best weapons 

 against Modern Scepticism. To the man, who is convinced that God has 

 spoken, materialism becomes necessarily an empty and useless dream. And, 

 as regards the prominent topic of this paper, to the man, who is convinced 

 of an Infinite and Eternal Intelligence, the Author of all being, the doctrine 

 of human responsibility becomes an intense reality, the pole-star of human 

 moral life : while to the materialist it is but one result of what have been 

 called " social forces," and must be as changeable and evanescent as " social 

 forces " themselves have ever been. 



IT UEEX STREET, LOJfDOX, W.C. 



