t ON HUMAN RESPONSIBILITY. 47 
leads us up to God, which is the point at which we are so anxious 
to arrive. 
The Cxarrman.—I would like to ask Lord Grimthorpe his 
position in regard to the Egyptian “Ritual of the Dead,” to 
which reference has been made by Dr. Wace, and to which my 
attention was called lately. JI am more than ever impressed 
with the extreme importance of it, and especially when considering 
the age in which it was framed. In connection with the moral 
law being written in the heart of man, I would ask what is the “. 
difference between that and what we usually term conscience ? 
Is not conscience itself a record of Divine influence which is “+ 
granted to each individual coming into the world, whether civilized 
or savage? I cannot help thinking we mistake in separating 
conscience so entirely from the sense of moral law described by 
the apostle as being written in our hearts. It is difficult to 
distinguish between conscience in men and instinct in brutes; 
but I think it will be seen that there is a wide gulf between what 
we understand as the conscience of rational beings and the 
wonderful phenomenon of instinct in the lower animals. If that 
be so is not conscience, in point of fact, a revelation P In this 
Egyptian “Ritual of the Dead” the revelation is spoken of as 
being a moral law written in the heart: No doubt a moral law 
given as a revealed religion, is very much more definite, positive, 
and available, and in connection with responsibility, of a far 
higher and broader kind. I would venture to ask Lord Grim- 
thorpe whether he could give any direct reference to these points 
which are not, I think, touched on in his paper. 
Lord Grimrorre.—When you speak of the conscience coming 
from revelation, you must recollect that revelation in this matter 
may mean two things—either original revelation, such as I have 
alluded to in my paper, of which the Jews alone seem to have 
kept a record, which has kept it from running into bad develop- 
ments, or such a revelation as there may have been to earlier 
nations even than the Jews, or to the Egyptians themselves. 
- Another kind of revelation may be said to be one that goes on 
continuously in the nature of instinct. If we can prove that 
people never inherited revelation, and have a conscience like ours, 
in the sense of approving or disapproving of certain things, that 
would prove, I think, a continuous revelation. As to the Egyptian 
