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SYDNEY T. KLEIN, F.L.S., T.E.A.S., ON THE 



happiness as cannot be described in earthly language, nor even 

 imagined by our corporeal senses ; hence, in the many passages 

 referring to that wondrous Life hereafter, we are not told what 

 Heaven is like but only what is not to be found there : 



" Eye hath not seen nor ear heard, 

 Neither have entered into the heart of man 



The things that God hath prepared for them that love Him." 

 (i Cor. ii, 9.) 



Discussion. 



The Secretary read the following communication from the 

 Kev. Canon Girdlestone : — 



In reading Mr. Klein's remarkable paper I have been reminded 

 again and again of the writings of Philo, the Alexandrine Jew, 

 Paul's contemporary. Thus, Philo says, " The world was not created 

 in time, but time has its existence in consequence of the world ; it is 

 the motion of the heaven that has displayed the nature of time." 

 Again, " what has been made by the author of all things has no 

 limitation ; and in this way the idea is excluded that the universe 

 was created in six days." God is regarded by him as " the mind or 

 soul of the universe " and to be contemplated by the soul alone 

 without utterance of any voice. He also held that every one of us 

 Las two persons, the animal and the man, the life-faculty and the 

 reason faculty. 



Mr. Klein holds with Kant that time and space are human forms 

 of thought, or, as Carlyle calls them, the warp and woof of existence : 

 still, they stand for something, and they help to give us an idea of 

 the eternal and infinite spring of existence. I wonder that Mr. Klein 

 did not point to the Incarnation as supplying the key to the problem, 

 e.g., in pp. 139-142. 



On p. 131 he says that certain negatives {e.g., evil) have no real 

 existence. They are shadows. We are familiar with this view in the 

 writings of Christian Science, but does it stand the test of Scripture 

 or of experience % Victory over evil is a very real thing. A good deal 

 depends on the definition of the word " real." I am sorry that we 

 have not this useful word in the English Bible, though we have 

 what answers to it in the original. 



P. 132, middle, " only an image of our retina." Surely the image is 



