30 A GREAT CONFESSION CHAP. 



his emphatic rejection of the claim of 

 either of them to represent true physical 

 causation his sentence upon both of 

 them that they are mere figures of 

 speech is, in my judgment, a memorable 

 fact. As regards Mr. Spencer himself, 

 it is a creditable performance and an 

 honourable admission. It is one of the 

 high prerogatives of the human mind to 

 be able to turn upon its own arguments, 

 and its own imaginings, the great 

 weapon of analysis. There are in all of 

 us, not only two voices, but many voices, 

 and splendid work is done when the 

 higher faculties call upon the lower to 

 give an account of what they have said 

 and argued. Often and often, as the 

 result of such a call, we should catch the 

 accents of confession saying, " We have 

 been shutting our eyes to the deepest 

 truth, keeping them open only to others 

 which were comparatively superficial. 



