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strongly, that every hindrance of man's own mak- 

 ing to that advance was a hindrance to man's 

 social and moral progress, and told against man's 

 highest welfare. It was this feeling which 

 brought him into conflict with what I may here 

 venture to speak of collectively as the Church. 

 And no true conception of Huxley's life can be 

 gained unless his attitude in this respect be clearly 

 understood. 



He distinguished in the work of the Church 

 between the moving power and the directive 

 agencies. The moving power may be found in 

 the words, love and fear of God, hope and dread 

 of the life to come. The dominant emotion 

 indicated by the words love and fear of God 

 seemed to him, when carefully examined, to be in 

 essence identical with the dominant emotion 

 which he recognised as the moving power making 

 for man's welfare, which had been the moving 

 power of his own life, which had been his religion, 

 and which he spoke of as love of good and of truth 

 and fear of evil and of lies. Whether the good 

 and the true were presented in a personal form, or 

 not so presented, seemed to him to make no real 

 difference in the nature of the emotion itself; and 

 if, on the one hand, it might seem that the 

 emotion was intensified when sustained by a per- 

 sonal conception, on the other hand it might be 

 regarded as more durable and constant when it 

 stood alone and was not in any way contingent on 

 intellectual conceptions. Moreover, so it seemed 



