I2O Concluding Observations. 



sense of the calamitous apprehensions which break 

 the heart that must bear them alone. " I have seen 

 her," he says. " The figure I beheld is, and is not, 

 my Charlotte my thirty years' companion. Can 

 it be the face that was once so full of lively expres- 

 sion ? I will not look on it again. But it is not 

 my Charlotte it is not the bride of my youth, the 

 mother of my children, that will be laid among the 

 ruins of Dryburgh which we have so often visited in 

 gaiety and pastime. No ! no ! She is sentient and 

 conscious of my emotions somewhere somehow : 

 where we cannot tell ; how we cannot tell ; yet would 

 I not at this moment renounce the mysterious yet 

 certain hope that I shall see her in a better world for 

 all that this w 7 orld can give me." 



One of the most remarkable sceptical writers of 

 our day and country, Mr. John Stewart Mill, an 

 eminent philosopher, and generally regarded as a 

 sound logician one for whom a rare plant had ;i 

 charm cost what it might of labour and fatigue in 

 k its search, the accomplishment was a moment of 

 rapture in the maturity of his mind, when discuss- 

 ing the bearings of science on religion in general, 

 and its utility, urgently advises all who can to live 

 confiding in that Religion, which he also describes as 

 essentially unlike all others, but for whose enjoyment 

 his peculiar mind seems to have been unfitted by 

 early education. Mr. Mill speaks of " one Man who 

 left on the memory of those who watched His life 

 and conversation such an impression of His moral 



