CHAP, xix HYPER-DARWINISM IN SOCIOLOGY 



comes from above. " What the law could not do, in 

 that it was weak through the flesh," has yet been 

 done, and done in a Diviner way. Here is the true 

 apologetic vindication of religion. Religion is no 

 superfluity, though reason itself so far as its influ- 

 ence goes inclines us towards what is good. Re- 

 ligion is the breath of life, the touch of God, making 

 that a reality, strong and victorious, which apart from 

 it would be nothing but a faint aspiration or a bitter 

 and hopeless regret. 



