Mr. Butler's Discourse. 



May "good" then — the universal good — the to kalon of 

 the ancient philosophy (the ineffable Idea of all that is sublime 

 and beautiful in Truth and Virtue) blended with the higher and 

 greater "good" of Christian ethics, be the end and aim, the 

 object and the issue, of ail our enquiries and exertions. And 

 from all our studies and pursuits — from the forms of inani- 

 mate creation — from the endless varieties of living things — 

 from consciousness, and reason, and the inmost recesses of the 

 soul — from all physical, and mental, and moral science — may 

 we hear the voice of truth — a voice to lead us to the glory of 

 goodness and the immortality of the blest ! 



