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of the inadequacy of scientific research, philosophical 

 speculation, and artistic pleasures to fill ' the Yacuum 

 in the soul of man which nothing can fill save faith in 

 God.' ^ And now Oxford, ^nth all the beauty still left 

 to her, with all the associations which haunt her, with 

 all the extraordinary -^-itching spell which she knows 

 so well how to exercise — Oxford, the home of ' lost 

 causes ' and also of forward movements, Oxford came 

 to be for four brief years his home. 



1890 opened with the death of ^Ir. Aubrey !Moore. 

 Only a very few weeks before his too early death, Mr. 

 Moore had been present at the Aristotehan Society,^ 

 and had heard the joint papers contributed by Pro- 

 fessor Alexander, the Eev. S. Gildea, and ]\Ir. Eomanes 

 on the ' Evidences of Design in Nature.' 



Here, again, Mr. Romanes showed how far he had 

 receded from the materiaUstic point of view. In his 

 paper he quoted passages from Aubrey Moore's essay 

 in ' Lux Mundi ' (just pubhshed), and says : 



Yet once more, it may be argued, as it has been 

 argued by a member of this Society in a recently-pub- 

 lished essay — and this an essay of such high abihty 

 that in mj' opinion it must be ranked among the very 

 few of the very greatest achievements in the depart- 

 ment of hterature to which it belongs — it may, I say, 

 be argued, as it recently has been argued by the Eev. 

 Aubrey Moore, that ' the counterpart of the theological 

 beHef in the unity and omnipresence of God is the 

 scientific behef in the unity of nature and the reign of 



' sir. Bomanes had belonged for many years to the Aristotelian 

 Society, and had contributed papers to the Journal of the Society. He 

 also once belonged to the Psychological Club, which used to meet at Pro- 

 fessor Croom Eobertson's house. The other members of the club were Mr. 

 Francis Galton, ilr. Sully, Mr. Shadworth Hodgson, Professor Edgeworth, 

 Professor Dunstan, Mr. Edmund Gumey, Mrs. Bryant, and one or two others. 



- See Thoughts on Beligion, p. 92. 



