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being either from nothing or for nothing. A positive basis exists some- 

 where. Human nature cannot content itself with philosophical Nihilism any 

 more than it can with agnostic, — i.e., practically atheistic, — "Positivism" 

 (so called). Faith in the existence of a Personal God, as the Beginner 

 and Goal of all things, is the ttov crrw which gives the only sufficient 

 starting-point for satisfying and elevating search after truth in Nature, 

 Mind, or History. Believing in this, we believe in the possibility of special 

 revelations, which make history intelligible, however many difficulties, not 

 to be solved by finite minds, remain for the philosophical thinker ; and in 

 accepting the Christian Revelation we have a refuge from our ignorances 

 and our sorrows in the certain conviction that God is love, and that the 

 resultant of all things is not evil, but good. 



