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homes of our kith and kin. Coronations regained 

 their old splendour, and Jubilees were invented to 

 supplement them. Even towns begin to realize a 

 sense of corporate continuity, and pageants minister 

 to the newly recovered or newly acknowledged pro- 

 cessional instinct. We revive maypole dancing and 

 introduce acting and dramatic recitations into the 

 elementary schools thereby returning to the educa- 

 tional ideals of the later Stuarts and think we have 

 taken a step in advance. 



Now all this movement has a real historical import- 

 ance in the development of the human mind. It 

 accompanied the contemporary change of attitude 

 in science, and was its representative in another field 

 of thought. The sages of 1860 had overlooked essential 

 psychological truths, and had made man a purely 

 intellectual being in their own fancied likeness. Since 

 then we have rediscovered his other faculties, and 

 have set to work, some of us to develop them, 

 others to find an equation which will express their 

 value in the corporate life of the community. 



Meanwhile, the application of comparative, historical 

 Comparative an d evolutionary methods to the study of 



Religion, religion has changed profoundly our ideas 

 of its course of development. 



Even when the idea of evolution had been absorbed 

 and assimilated by theologians, the a priori method 

 reigned for a time supreme. Evolution had proceeded, 

 no doubt, but dispensation had followed dispensation, 

 till, in the fullness of time, the particular stage of 

 Catholic doctrine now authorized by the Holy Father, 

 or the particular tenets then emphasized by the 



