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harmonise with her precepts and counsels. Moreover, 

 such citizens will naturally have their emotions more and 

 more strongly excited, and their volitions rendered more 

 and more vigorous, by those very actions which the 

 struggle for existence renders needful in support and ex- 

 tension of that system to which they adhere, and which 

 the fact of their adhesion under varying circumstances 

 tends more and more to elicit. 



Such, then, seems to be the answer afforded by the facts 

 to the calm judicial inquirer who seeks to ascertain what 

 must be the effect (through the operation of merely natural 

 laws, upon the Christian Church) of the further continuance 

 of the political portion of the great modern movement in 

 the direction it has so long followed. 



(i.) The effect on Christianity will be to give increased 

 coherence and strength to its organisation, and efficiency to its 

 action. 



(2.) The result of the conflict will depend, not on political 

 changes, but on those matters which must occupy us hereafter 

 science and philosophy. 



He, however, who wishes to judge fully of the matter 

 here treated should endeavour to place himself in imagin- 

 ation at the Churchman's standpoint, and consider how he 

 might express himself as to the course of modern political 

 evolution in relation to Christianity. 



The Churchman might express his sentiments somewhat 

 thus : 





