The Destiny of Man. 



the riddle of the universe becomes a riddle 

 without a meaning. Why, then, are we any 

 more called upon to throw away our belief 

 in the permanence of the spiritual element 

 in Man than we are called upon to throw 

 away our belief in the constancy of Na- 

 ture ? When questioned as to the ground 

 of our irresistible belief that like causes 

 must always be followed by like effects, 

 Mr. Mill's answer was that it is the result 

 of an induction coextensive with the whole 

 of our experience ; Mr. Spencer's answer 

 was that it is a postulate which we make 

 in every act of experience ; 20 but the au- 

 thors of the " Unseen Universe," slightly 

 varying the form of statement, called it a 

 supreme act of faith, the expression of 

 a trust in God, that He will not " put us to 

 permanent intellectual confusion." Now 

 the more thoroughly we comprehend that 

 process of evolution by which things have 

 come to be what they are, the more we are 

 jikely to feel that to deny the everlasting 

 persistence of the spiritual element in Man 



