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which is popularly confounded with " hardness," is in no way bound 

 up with want of sympathy or kindness ; but people are so used to 

 carry their sentiments into the decision of questions of fact, that when 

 they find any one does not do so, they conclude that he is without 

 feeling. Nothing could be a clearer proof of this than the instance 

 brought forward by Lord Carnarvon. Mr. Mill, he says, " endeavored 

 not merely to suppress but to trample down and to crush out every 

 thing approaching to feeling in his nature." That this should be said 

 of the most tender of husbands, the kindest of friends, the man whose 

 sympathies were as wide as the animal creation, whose depth of feeling 

 wa*s such that there was not a noble or a beautiful thing in Nature 

 but it mirrored itself on his heart — is convincing evidence of the utter 

 blindness of Lord Carnarvon in the discernment of sentiment in others 

 which takes a different direction from his own. What Mr. Mill did 

 with unequaled success was that which we have already indicated. 

 He endeavored, when engaged in the investigation of truth, to avoid 

 the bias of sentiment ; but it needs no prophet to tell us that in this 

 he was impelled by a loyalty to truth springing out of his conviction 

 of its importance to the interests of his kind. Indeed, if thoroughly 

 scientific men were as devoid of feeling as Lord Carnarvon represented 

 them, his fear of them would be ludicrous. They are a mere handful 

 of men. They have arrayed against them the prejudices of mankind, 

 the interests of the ruling classes all over Europe, and a powerful and 

 well-paid ecclesiastical organization. What reason is there to be in 

 4< great dread " that a few men without feeling or devotion will triumph 

 over such great odds ? The truth is, that what is making the wearers 

 of coronets and mitres tremble is, not the absence of religious feeling 

 from social philosophy, but the union of the two. Mr. Mill has done 

 more than any one in modern times to effect that union. It shines 

 through his works on even the most abstract of subjects as a halo, 

 and deep in the hearts of the most powerful intellects of our country 

 are to be found the sentiments which he did so much to rouse and to 

 direct. Hence these tears. 



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SKETCH OF E. A. PEOCTOE. 



IjNT making use of the sciences for purposes of intellectual cultiva- 

 tion, a distinction has been drawn between those that are fixed, or 

 established, and those that are progressive, and it has been maintained 

 that the former alone are to be admitted for the purposes of mental 

 training. Foremost among these are Mathematics, Astronomy, and 

 Molar Physics, or the laws of the motion of masses. These may be 

 introduced as means of scientific education, while Molecular Physics, 

 Chemistry, and Biology, from their unsettled character, are alleged 



