EXCURSIONS OF AN EVOLUTIONIST 



signed in any philosophy of ethics. Human re- 

 sponsibility is made more strict and solemn than 

 ever, when the eternal Power that lives in every 

 event of the universe is thus seen to be in the 

 deepest possible sense the author of the moral 

 law that should guide our lives, and in obedience 

 to which lies our only guarantee of the happi- 

 ness which is incorruptible, which neither in- 

 evitable misfortune nor unmerited obloquy can 

 ever take away. 



I have here but barely touched upon a rich 

 and suggestive topic. When this subject shall 

 once have been expounded and illustrated with 

 due thoroughness, as I earnestly hope it will 

 be within the next few years, then I am sure 

 it will be generally acknowledged that our great 

 teacher's services to religion have been no less 

 signal than his services to science, unparalleled 

 as these have been in all the history of the world. 



No-vembtr, 1882. 



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