"What man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man, which is in him? Even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God."-ST. PAUL. "Treuthe is tresor, The trieste on erthe, When alle tresors are tried Treuthe is the beste." The Vision of Piers Ploughman. 05-2-39 J. A gt-menley bib 4-28-39 PREFACE. IN bringing these Essays before the reading and thinking world the author wishes at once to apologize for their deficiency in completeness and symmetry of literary arrangement, and to seek its excuse in the vast, complicated, and out-reaching character of the subjects with which they deal. I have endeavoured in these papers to bring forward, under various aspects, my own profound conviction that it does not become man to put asunder those that God has joined together; that things which we are accustomed to place in separation, almost in antagonism, as material or as spiritual, are linked in an inherent unity, and that their connection, which we are as yet unable to trace out clearly, is close, |