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pathy. At mass his intellect, though amply exercised, 

 should he so will it, yet need not be tried by the hear- 

 ing of a single word from beginning to end. His ses- 

 thetical instincts may be gratified by treasures of the 

 organic and inorganic worlds, by products of human skill, 

 whether of the artisan or the musician, and by the solemn 

 movements and stately rhythms of motion incident to 

 the sacred rite. His historical sentiments will be grati- 

 fied by contemplating a worship essentially the same 

 as that spread over our land before these last three 

 centuries of repression ; a worship the same as that 

 which aided to weld together Normans and Saxons 

 into our English race ; the same as that which has af- 

 forded spiritual support to all those the world has 

 deemed most holy to Fenelon, Vincent of Paul, Aqui- 

 nas, Francis, and Augustine. Even dimly, as in a glim- 

 mering twilight, he may see in the sacred offerings and 

 the accompaniments of flowers, of tapers, and of per- 

 fumes, suggestions of a past, remote indeed, even of the 

 early worship of his primitive Aryan forefathers in their 

 Eastern home. The "reasonable service" of Him who 

 is at once the source and maintainer of all evolution 

 from the merely physical to that of human society 

 should surely have this harmonious universality of cha- 

 racter. If " the Unknowable/' if Almighty God is to be 

 worshipped at all, the consistent evolutionist must surely 

 deem that worship to be most fitting which has thus 



