argument, historical or philosophical, for denying a trustworthy authority in religion. To deny a trustworthy authority in morals would probably too much alarm the age. But Sir James Stephen justly observes upon the great progress of disintegration in religious thought during the twenty-eight years which have passed since Lewis published in 1849. In twenty-eight more years, perhaps, those of us who

may be alive will have nerve to look in the face the proposal that the unreal theory, which separates religious doctrine and practice, shall be allowed to go the way of all flesh; and that the doctrine of a trustworthy authority in morals shall be abandoned, as well as that of a trustworthy authority in religion.

Using his happy faculty of illustration, Sir James Stephen closes with two parables.43 In the latter, one of two seeing men lays claim to a superior kind of sight, called “intueing,' and not possessed by all, which discloses to him what is passing in sun, moon, and stars. Such a parallel emphatically convicts pretenders to a transcendental faculty. But against those who take their stand, in good faith, on the general constitution, which God has given to His human creatures, it is really a pointless dart. There are some philosophies, which maim this constitution by declining to take account of some of its most important offices and organs. He who argues against the Hedonist, that there is such a thing discerned or discernible by men as good apart from pleasure, asserts nothing for himself which he does not assert for humanity at large. All or most faculties may indeed enlarge, multiply, and vary their powers by vigorous and judicious exercise; or may stunt and finally lose them by disuse. But the starting-point is the same if the goal is not, and the race is run along level ground on even terms. By intuition I only mean mental sight, the faculty common to us all. I do not ask how far it is an original power, or how far it is one trained or reached by the exercise of other powers.

How we know God, this is hardly the place to inquire. But it may be the place to say I cannot assert any method of knowing Him otherwise than by operations in strict conformity with the general laws of our nature. I agree with the deceased Mr. Dalgairns, that my knowledge of God is as real as my knowledge of man;' and bold, or more than bold, is he who affirms that his knowledge of man is limited to what his senses can discern in man,

The disintegration of belief, to which Sir James Stephen refers, is, I believe, very largely exaggerated in the estimates of some of those who have suffered it; but is yet in itself both remarkable and ominous. Among the special causes which bave promoted or favoured it has probably, I admit, been that unusual rapidity of material progress, to stimulating which a great portion of my own life and efforts, in the line of my public duty, have been directed. In extremely kind terms, Sir James Stephen challenges me on this subject. I do INDE

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not deny the fact, nor my own relation to it. I plead, however, first,
that whatever zeal I had in the cause was inspired by the hope, not
of our increasing the wealth or weight of the wealthy, but of our
bringing millions upon millions out of a depressing poverty into a
capacity at least of tolerable comfort; and that, in acting otherwise,
I should have been like a physician refusing to use the appropriate
means for bringing back to health a patient of questionable habits,
lest he should misuse the blessing when attained. There can be
little doubt that, with this abnormal rapidity in the creation of masses
of wealth, there has come a shock to moral and mental equilibrium,
and a perceptible overweight of material objects and pursuits. But
on the other hand it may be allowed us at least to hope that the
effect of such a shock may pass away, like an atmospheric dis-
turbance, when it has produced its proper amount either of discom-
fort or of mischief. But here again we stand at the door of a large
subject, which it would be especially unsuitable to prosecute at the
end of a paper already carried to an extent that may well have ex-
hausted the patience of the most willing reader. I shall close with
a single remark on the celebrated dictum of Vincentius, quod semper,
quod ubique, quod ab omnibus ; on which Lewis has offered critical
observations that, in the letter, it would be difficult to dispute. My
remarks shall be not on its positive but on its negative value. It
supplies, or ought to supply, an useful safeguard against the mental
panic to which some give way when they perceive, or think they
perceive, some violent rush of popular opinion. It is a good antidote
against the sentiment which has not yet assumed the form of a
counter-adage, but which may be fairly expressed in the words quod
nunc, quod hic, quod a paucis. It may supply some fresh securities
for our mental freedom against the hurried and crowded, and yet
rather too imperious, demands of our own day and place; and may
remind us that the promises and purposes of the Creator are not for
an age but for the ages, and not for a tribe but for mankind.

Air-bladder, functions
(Moreau), 172
Amblystoma evolved out of t

174
American Political Crisis, by

Wilson, 198–220
Arctic regions, change of elim

504
Argyll (Duke of), A Modern S

351-353 Arnold (Arthur), The Ahu

Landed Gentry, 458-478, Arnold (Matthew), Falkland Authority, origin of the word

Opinion, by the Rt. Il

- On the Influence of, in

Gladstone, 2-22 - Mr. Gladstone and Sü G

on, by Sir James Fitzjan

270_297 - Rejoinder on Authority i

Opinion, by the Rt. II

Gladstone, 902-926 Axolotl, experiments on the

174

BAS

W. E. GLADSTONE.

ASTIAN'S (Dr.) expe

spontaneous generation Becket Thomas), Life and

J. A. Froude, 545-562,8 Becquerel (Famond) on the

region of the solar spectrup Benefices, sale of, 58, 438 Beryliam or glucinum, 15% Bishops, appointment of, ca: Blanford (II. F.), age of

bearing series of India, jl Board of Trade and Pailma

650

NOTE.-In an article on The Abuses of a Landed Gentry, which appeared in the May number of this Review, a Public Drainage Loan is mentioned, and the question is put: 'What did the landed gentry do with it? Mr. Caird tells us that they borrowed at 6} per cent. from the Government, and lent at 7} per cent. to their tenants.' We are requested by Mr. Caird to state that he has been erroneously quoted as the authority for that general statement, which, though it may be true in some few exceptional and unimportant cases, is to his knowledge inapplicable and unjust to the landed gentry as a whole.'-ED.

Bohemian coal-fields, stra

Feistmantel), 5417
Bolingbroke on the success
Bourke's (Mr.) speech on

Question, 868
Bowring (Fagar A., Sout).

ism, 150

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INDEX TO VOL. I.

The titles of articles are printed in italics.

FRO
Dudevant (Madame) = George Sand,

221-241
Duff (M. E. Grant), Russia, Part I. 72–
96. Part II. 298–314
The Five Nights' Debate, 857–878

FUT

LAN

Future Life, 623, 832

Horticultural Society at South Ken-
Fyffe (C. A.), The Punishment of Infan- sington, 578
ticide, 583-595

Hugo (Victor), by Alfred Tennyson,

547
YALLIUM, discovery of the new

Hutton (R. H.), A Modern Symposium,

539-545
metal (Lecoq de Boisbaudron),
156-158

Huxley (Prof.), Recent Science, 156–176,
Garrett-Anderson (Mrs.), her study of

504-523
medicine, 889

- A Modern Symposium, 536–539
George Sand, by F. W. H. Myers, 221-

241
Germs, experiments on, 516-520

TMMACULATE CONCEPTION,
Gladstone (Rt. Hon. W. E.), On the

growth of the doctrine, 184
Influence of Authority in Matters of

Imperial Policy of Great Britain, by
Opinion (Review of Sir George

Sir John Lubbock, 37-49
Cornewall Lewis's Essay), 2–22

India, Great Britain's policy towards, 42
· Rejoinder on Authority in Matters of

Our Route to, by Edward Dicey,

665–685
Opinion, 902–926
- and Sir George Lewis on Authority,

Indian coal-bearing beds (Feistmantel),

508
by Sir James Fitzjames Stephen,
270-297

Induction coil, Mr. Spottiswoode's large,

160-161
Montenegro, a Sketch, 360–379
- Resolutions on the Eastern Question,

Infallibility of the Roman Pontiff, 182,
859

485, 590, 790-808
Glass, changes in, 512

Infanticide, the Punishment of, by C. A.
iridescence of, 512

Fyffe, 583-595
Gloucester and Bristol (Bishop of), The

"Intue,' use of the word, 297, 925
Church of England, Present and

Ireland, ancient monuments in, 269
Future, 50-71

England's policy towards, 45
- The Ridsdale Judgment and its Results,

Irving (Henry), Shakespearian Notes,
753-773

No. I., 327-330; No. II., 524–530
Glucinum, on the atomic weight of (J.

Emerson Reynolds), 158-160
Goptchevitch (S.), Montenegro und die JANUS work published in Germany,
Gore House Estate, 563

Council, 189, 602
Great Britain, On the Imperial Policy

Jelly fish, on the nervous system of
of, by Sir John Lubbock, 37-49

(Romanes), 171-172
Greater Lesser Britain, by Sir Julius

Jex-Blake (Miss), at the University of

Edinburgh, 888
Vogel, 809-831
Groth's Journal of Crystallography, 513

Judd's (Prof.) Contributions to the

Study of Volcanoes, 166-168

Judicial Committee of the Privy Coun-
HAMLET and Ophelia, by H. Irving, cil (Ridsdale Judgment), 757

524-530
Hampden somewhat of a Philistine, 154
Harrison (Frederic), A Modern Sympa KENSINGTON (SOUTH); by
sium, 345–349

Edgar A. Bowring, 563-582
The Soul and Future Life, 623-636, Khrabry Voin, or Valiant Warrior, 409
832-842

Knowledge, How we come by our, by
Hartington's (Lord) Speech on the Prof. G. Croom Robertson, 113-121
Eastern Question, 870*

Kohlrausch (F.), Electric Conductivity
Heaven a conscious annihilation, 842 of Water, 513
Heer (Professor) on climatic change, Koran no longer the exact mirror of
504

Islamism, 731
Henry II. of England and Thomas Kühne, researches on sight-purple, 521

Becket, 559, 843
Hertwig, researches on the foraminifera,

170-171
Hervey's (Lord Francis) opinion of LAINGS (Mr.) speech on the Eastern

, 866
ancient monuments, 263

Lakes, origin of salt, 163–165
Home's (Mr.) psychic powers, 251, 884 Land, rights of the people in the, 463
Hope (George), of Fenton Barns, treat- Landed Gentry, the Abuses of a, by
ment of, by his landlord, 465

Arthur Arnold, 458–478, 926