48 Prof. Ernst Haechel. 



divine universe. Herbert Spencer, though often dissenting 

 from M. Oomte's ideas, bases his own best work npon his 

 sociological principles. Notice, for instance, his splendid 

 demonstration of the organic nature of society and history 

 in his Sociology, and his often-repeated proof that the " in- 

 nate ideas " are the results of race-inheritance instead of 

 individual experience. In all such cases he is following the 

 line of the great inspirations of our day, which are based 

 upon the continuity and solidarity of mankind. Our great 

 American patriots and orators from the Eevolution to Lin- 

 coln, and especially in the grander orations of Daniel Web- 

 ster, have these fundamental ideas and sentiments as their 

 inspiration. The generations past and to come underlie, 

 sustain, and consecrate every appeal to duty and patriotism. 



Thus, as the conception of the Christ as a man, under evo- 

 lutional criticism, vanishes from history, the ideal Messiah^ 

 which gave rise to the belief that there Avas once such a 

 man, has become incarnated in the history and fact of the 

 evolution of the race itself, revealing it as our ever-living 

 Saviour. 



Tlie next person of the old religious Trinity is no longer 

 the Holy Ghost, but the holy life of man, in which we all 

 partake, and which is the most precious thing in the Avorld 

 — human life ! Its co-operative altruistic power is our true 

 Bustainer and " comforter." 



The " Holy Mother " of the Roman faith is enlarged, as 

 in the concluding line of Faust, into the " Eternal-woman- 

 ly " that leads humanity ever upward and on. In a word, 

 she is ^Yomanhood — continuous, replacing, sustaining, glori- 

 fied as " Maiden, Mother, Queen, and Goddess." 



21ie ii'ue Bible is no longer those old Hebrew and Greek 

 documents, strangely bound together as one book ; but the 

 books, good and true, of the whole Avorld and of all time. 



llie Creed is not any number of Church Articles, but the 

 conclusions of science, ever being revised, and exi)ressed in 

 a positive philosophy as the best description of the know- 

 uble world. 



Of the Heavens and Hells, " the places that knew them 

 once now know them no more." But in the misery and 

 ioy, the remorse and blessedness of the human hearts they 

 have tbcir now location ; and between them stands every 

 day as the Day of Jadyment. 



There is scarcely a name, symbol, or line of the old faiths 

 which can not be thus found to be replaced and enlarged 



