SCIENCB AND MAN. 



most important factor, unlocking moral energies which 



might otherwise remain impri>oued and unused. If the 



thoroughly feels that words of enlightenment, 



je. and admonition enter into the li.- 1 

 ; by Nature herself for man's amelioration, sin- 

 gifted man with speech, lie will suffer no paralysis to fall 

 his tongue. Dung the fig-tree hopefully, and not 

 until its barrenness has been demonstrated heyond a doubt 

 let tli' * go forth, "Cut it down, why cumbcivth it 



the ground r " 



ineinber when a youth in the town of Halifax, some 

 ad-thirty years ago, attending a lecture given br a 

 young man to a small but select and ienee. The aspect of 

 -Hirer was tamest and practical, and his voice soon 

 riveted attention, lie spoke of duty, defining it as a 

 debt owed, and there was a kindling vigor in his words 

 which must have strengthened the sense of duty in the 

 s of those who heard him. No speculations regard- 

 ing the freedom of the will could alter the fact that the 

 words of that young man did me good. His name was 

 George Dawson. lie also spoke, if you will allow me 

 to alude io it, of a social subject much discussed at the 

 th- Chartist subject of 4< leveling." Suppose, he 

 ;i to be equal at night, and that one rises 

 at six, while the other sleeps till nine next morning, what 

 four leveling:' And in so speaking he made 

 li the nioiithpieee of Nature, which, as we have seen, 

 . not by the reduction of all to a common 

 but by the encouragement and conservation of what 

 Btfc 



It may be urged that, in dealing as above with my hypo- 

 thetical criminal, I am assuming a state of things brought 

 about by the influence of religions which inclu.i 



;is of theology and the belief in fiee-\\ ill a state. 

 iy, in which a moral majority control and keep in awe 

 an immoral minority. Tn- li.-ai f of ma- ,;ful above 



all it. -perately wicked. Withdraw, then, our 



theologic sane '-hiding the belief in free-will, and 



the race will be ty pitied by the samples 

 of individual . ss u Inch have been a 



Wo shall all, that in, become robbers, and 



and murderer.-. I MI I -h t f late 



it would seem that this astounding inference linds house- 



