ANALOGY — TRUE AND FALSE 39 



Professor Drummond was able to show the con- 

 tinuity of natural law in the spiritual world by as- 

 suming that a spiritual world which was the counter- 

 part of the physical world actually existed. That 

 Calvinism in its main tenets tallies, or seems to 

 tally, with science is no more proof of the literal 

 truth of those tenets than the ascribing of human 

 form and features to the man in the moon is proof 

 of the existence of such a man. Our minds, our 

 spirits, are no doubt in a way under the same law as 

 are our bodies, because they are the outcome of our 

 bodies and our bodies are the outcome of material 

 nature ; but to base upon that fact the existence of a 

 corresponding world and life after death is to leap 

 beyond the bounds of all possible analogy. 



Many of the dogmas of theology have a grain of 

 natural truth in them. This does not prove their 

 truth, as applicable to some hypothetical other 

 world, but as applied to this world. The kingdom 

 of heaven, as the founder of Christianity taught, is 

 not yonder and of to-morrow, but is now and here. 



Tolstoi, I think, is guilty of false analogy when, 

 in attempting to get rid of the idea of pleasure as 

 the aim and purpose of art, he makes the compari- 

 son with food, and says that pleasure is no more the 

 end in eating than it is in painting, or poetry, or 

 music. The analogy is false because the necessities 

 of our bodies are not to be compared with the luxu- 

 ries, so to speak, of our minds. We cannot live 

 without food, but we can and do live without art. 

 And yet, do we not eat because the food tastes good ? 



