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FRAGMENTS OF SCIENCE. 



at this precise point, where they are really of use, Mr. 

 Mozley excludes the affections and demands a miracl 

 as a certificate of character. He will not accept an; 

 other evidence of the perfect goodness of Christ. 4 Nc 

 outward life and conduct,' he says, * however irreproach- 

 able, could prove His perfect sinlessness, because good- 

 ness depends upon the inward motive, and th< 

 perfection of the inward motive is not proved by th( 

 outward act.' But surely the miracle is an outwan 

 act, and to pass from it to the inner motive imposes 

 greater strain upon logic than that involved in 01 

 ordinary methods of estimating men. There is, 

 least, moral congruity between the outward goodm 

 and the inner life, but there is no such congruity 

 tween the miracle and the life within. The test 

 moral goodness laid down by Mr. Mozley is not the 

 of John, who says, 'He that doeth righteousness 

 righteous ; ' nor is it the test of Jesus : ' By theii 

 fruits ye shall know them : do men gather grapes 

 thorns, or figs of thistles ? ' But it is the test 01 

 another : c If thou be the Son of God, command tfo 

 these stones be made bread.' For my own part, 

 prefer the attitude of Fichte to that of Mr. Mozley. 

 * The Jesus of John,' says this noble and mighty thinker, 

 ' knows no other God than the True God, in whom we 

 all are, and live, and may be blessed, and out of whoi 

 there is only Death and Nothingness. And,' continue 

 Fichte, ' he appeals, and rightly appeals, in support ol 

 this truth, not to reasoning, but to the inward practi- 

 cal sense of truth in man, not even knowing any oth< 

 proof than this inward testimony, " If any man will d< 

 the will of Him who sent Me, he shall know of the d( 

 trine whether it be of God." ' 



Accepting Mr. Mozley's test, with which alone I ai 

 now dealing, it is evident that, in the demonstration 



