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Beyond this I defy him to go; and yet lie rashly it 

 might he said petulantly kicks away the only philosophic 

 foundation on which it is possible for him to hnild his 

 religion. 



H- twits incidentally the modern scientific interpretation 

 of nature because of its want of cheerfulness. " L--t, tin- 

 new future," he says, " preach its own gospel, and <i 

 if it can, the means of making the tidings <jltt<L" Th: 

 a common argument: " If you only knew the comfort of 

 belief ! " My reply is' that I choose the nobler part of 

 Emerson, when, after various disenciiantments, he ex- 

 claimed, " I covet I ruth! " The gladness of true heroism 

 visits the heart of him who is really competent to say this. 

 cs, "gladness" is an emotion, and Mr. Martineaii 

 theoretically scorns the emotional, i am not, however, 

 acquainted with a writer who draws more largely upon this 

 source, while mistaking it for something objective. "To 

 reach the Cause," he says," there is no need to go into the 

 post, as though being missed here, He could be found 

 there. But when once He has been apprehended by 

 the proper organs of divine apprehension, the whole life 

 of Humanity is recognized as the scene of His agency." 

 That Mr. Martineaii should have lived so long, thought so 

 much, and failed to recognize the entirely subjective 

 character of this creed, is highly instructive. His " proper 

 organs of divine apprehension" given, we must assume, 

 to Mr. Martineaii and his pupils, but denied to many of 

 the greatest intellects and noblest men in this and other 

 ages lie at the very core of his emotions. 



In fact, it is when Mr. Martineaii is most purely 

 emotional that he scorns the emotions; it is when he is 

 most purely subjective that he rejects subjectivity. He 

 pays a just and liberal tribute to the character of John 

 Stuart Mill. But in the light of Mill's philosophy, 

 benevolence, honor, purity, having "shrunk into mere 

 unaccredited subjective susceptibilities, have lost all 

 support from Omniscient approval, and all presumable 

 accordance with the reality of things." If Mr. Martineaii 

 hod given them any inkling of the process by which he 

 renders the " subjective susceptibilities " objective, or how- 

 he arrivesat an objective ground of ( hnniscient approval," 

 gratitude from his pupils would hav-- hern his just meed. 

 But, as it is, he leaves i \ in an iridescent cloud of 



