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and Swedenborg, and the latter many names such as 

 Guyon and Rosmini among a host, Scotland has 

 nothing of this kind, unless in the case of Erskine of 

 Linlathen or Campbell of Row. The reason for this 

 would seem to be that Calvinism has both a religious 

 and a political side. As a philosophic creed, at least in 

 details, it affords a completeness of presentation that 

 leaves no room or indeed desire to pass behind the 

 veil and dwell on the unknowable and the unknown. 



Miller, at all events, found that hitherto his life had 

 lacked a ' central sun,' as he expresses it, round which 

 his feelings and intellect could anchor themselves. 

 This he found by a curiously instructive combination 

 of historical and geological reasoning. Professor 

 Blackie has pointed out that the true secret of the 

 vitality of the old Paganism and its logical internal 

 consistency simply lay in the fact of the great humanity 

 of the deities it created. This, also, as Miller himself 

 no less clearly shows, is at the bottom of the enduring 

 element in the lower reaches of Catholicism. 'There is,' 

 says our Scottish Neander, Rabbi John Duncan, 'an 

 old cross stone of granite by the roadside as you wind 

 up the hill at Old Buda, in Hungary, upon which a 

 worn and defaced image of our Saviour is cut, which I 

 used often to pass. The thorough woebegoneness of 

 that image used to haunt me long that old bit of 

 granite, the ideal of human sorrow, weakness and woe- 

 begoneness. To this day it will come back before me 

 always with that dumb gaze of perfect calmness no 



