ADDRESS. lxxv 
physical and spiritual history of man, and the forees which manifest them- 
selves in the alternate victories of mind and of matter over the actions of the 
individual, are, of all the subjects that physics and psychology have revealed 
to us, the most absorbing; and are, perhaps, utterly inscrutable. In the 
investigation of their phenomena is wrapped up that of the past and the 
future, the whence and the whither, of his existence; and after a knowledge 
of these the human soul still yearns, and thus passionately cries, in the 
words of a living poet :— 
“To matter or to force 
The all is not confined ; 
Beside the law of things 
Ts set the law of mind ; 
One speaks in rock and star, 
And one within the brain, 
In unison at times, 
And then apart again ; 
And both in one have brought us hither, 
That we may know our whence and whither. 
«The sequences of law 
We learn through mind alone ; 
We see but outward forms, 
The soul the one thing known ; — 
If she speak truth at all, 
The voices must be true 
That give these visible things, 
These laws their honour due, 
But tell of One who brought us hither, 
And holds the keys of whence and whither. 
* * * * * * 
“ He in His science plans, 
What no known laws foretell ; 
The wandering fires and fix’d 
Alike are miracle : 
The common death of all, 
The life renew’d above, 
Are both within the scheme 
Of that all-circling love. 
The seeming chance that cast us hither, 
Accomplishes His whence and whither ” *. 
* The Reign of Law, by F. T. Palgrave. Macmillan’s Magazine, March 1867. 
