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whether we can ever really know a person unless we 

 have some love for him. The facts of evolution seem 

 to me to admit of but one interpretation, that of 

 Augustine : " Thou hast formed me for thee, O Lord, 

 and my restless' spirit finds no rest but in thee." 

 Granted, therefore, a personal God in and behind en- 

 vironment, however dimly perceived, and conformity to 

 environment means god-likeness ; for conformity to a 

 person can mean nothing less than hkeness to him. 



Some of you must, all of you should, have read 

 Professor Huxley's "Address on Education." In it he 

 says, " It is a very plain and elementary truth that the 

 life, the fortune, and the happiness of every one of us, 

 and, more or less, of those who are connected with us, 

 do depend upon our knowing something of the rules 

 of a game infinitely more difficult and complicated than 

 chess. It is a game which has been played for un- 

 known ages, every man and woman of us being one of 

 the two players in a game of his or her own. The 

 chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenom- 

 ena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we 

 call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side 

 is hidden from us. We know that his play is always 

 fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, 

 that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the small- 

 est allowance for ignorance. To the man who plays 

 well the highest stakes are paid with that sort of over- 

 flowing generosity with which the strong shows delight 

 in strength. And one who plays ill is checkmated — 

 without haste, but without remorse. 



" My metaphor," he continues, " will remind some 

 of you of the famous picture in which Ketzsch has de- 

 picted Satan playing at chess with man for his soul. 



