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In one of his nobler passages Mr. Martineau tells us 

 how the pupils of his college have been educated hither- 

 to: ' They have been trained under the assumptions 

 (1) that the Universe which includes us and folds us 

 round is the life-dwelling of an Eternal Mind; (2) that 

 the world of our abode is the scene of a moral govern- 

 ment, incipient but not complete; and (3) that the 

 upper zones of human affection, above the clouds of self 

 and passion, take us into the sphere of a Divine Com- 

 munion. Into this over-arching scene it is^that grow- 

 ing thought and enthusiasm have expanded to catch 

 their light and fire/ 



Alpine summits seem to kindle above us as we read 

 these glowing words; we see their beauty and feel their 

 life. At the close of one of the essays here printed,* I 

 thus refer to the ' Communion ' which Mr. Martineau 

 calls * Divine ': ' " Two things," said Immanuel Kant, 

 " fill me with awe the starry heavens, and the sense 

 of moral responsibility in man." And in his hours of 

 health and strength and sanity, when the stroke of 

 action has ceased, and the pause of reflection has set 

 in, the scientific investigator finds himself overshad- 

 owed by the same awe. Breaking contact with the 

 hampering details of earth, it associates him with a 

 power which gives fulness and tone to his existence, but 

 which he can neither analyse nor comprehend.' Though 

 ' knowledge ' is here disavowed, the ' feelings ' of Mr. 

 Martineau and myself are, I think, very much alike. 

 He, nevertheless, censures me almost denounces me 

 for referring Religion to the region of Emotion. 

 Surely he is inconsistent here. The foregoing words 

 refer to an inward hue or temperature, rather than to 

 an external object of thought. When I attempt to 

 give the Power which I see manifested in the Universe 

 * Scientific Use of the Imagination.' 



