126 HEREDITY. 



lieves in what he can touch. The only immortality 

 for him is posthumous influence. But his doubt 

 results from his narrowness of outlook. Long ago 

 those who sit half way up the slope leading to the 

 wall from the trench have outgrown that narrowness. 

 They do not as yet divide man in a threefold way, 

 but think that there are body and soul in man, and 

 so are delivered from that style of mental unrest 

 into the mist of which even William Greg must dip, 

 as he takes his position. He knows not what to be- 

 lieve. He is now in the vapor, and now in the sun- 

 light. Professor Huxley must walk down too ; and, 

 although the vapor will not wreathe his forehead, it 

 will cover his feet, for the positivist and the material- 

 istic evolutionist do not stand far apart. But Lord 

 Blachford, Lord Selborne, Mr. Hutton, Canon Barry, 

 and all the rest of this English group, three of them 

 only excepted, stand here on the summit of the wall, 

 with Lotze and Schoberlein and Ulrici and the other 

 German scholars. They believe that man is three- 

 fold, a*nd their breadth of outlook delivers them 

 from the obscuring power of the vapor which -broods 

 only over the trenches. The lark continues to sing. 

 There comes falling through the ether a divine 

 voice: Narrowness is the mother of unbelief. Ob- 

 tain a broad outlook, would you agree with God 

 in your philosophy, and be able to transmit God's 

 own thought into life. [Applause.] 



