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CHAPTER VII. 



TRACES OF UNITY IN THE PERSONAL, SOCIAL, 

 AND RELIGIOUS LIFE OF MAN. 



MUCH remains to be done before it is possible to arrive 

 at a satisfactory conclusion respecting the modes of life 

 to which attention is directed in this chapter. And 

 why ? Would more have been done if more heed had 

 been paid to the teachings of Plato ? Would still more 

 have been done if these teachings had led on, as they 

 naturally do, to those of the inspired writers ? An 

 Aristotelian may sneer at such questions, a Platonist 

 cannot do so. Indeed, Plato himself, if he were to re- 

 visit the earth, would, in all probability, be most eager 

 to recognize in these writers men whose vision was clear 

 and far-reaching where his own was dim and purblind, 

 and whose spirit was in all points congenial with his own 

 spirit. Be this as it may, however, I cannot hope to 

 advance far in the devious way which now lies before me 

 if I refuse to accept the guidance of the so-called 

 inspired writers, and choose to trust only to the lumen 

 siccum of my own reason. 



A great demand is made upon the reason in adopt- 

 ing this course, but, after all, this is not so great as that 

 which is made by the evolutionist when dealing with the 

 same matters. I am required to believe that man was 

 created in the "image of God" and endowed with a 



