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mind" that " sees God in clouds and hears Him in the wind," but the most cultivated and the most religious.

The "One and all" requires the resignation of the individual and personal-of all that is selfish-to the Infinite Whole. Man loses himself in the Divine, and he must act harmoniously with it. "In the Church of the latter days," says St. Simon, "man is to feel and realise the divinity of his whole nature, material as well as spiritual." This is the Key-stone of the New Religion, of which Spinoza, as he has done most to embody the idea, and Atheist as he has been called, must be accepted as the High Priest. "Naturæ convenienter vivere" is our motto, and true humility is the recognition of the greatness of the whole.

The practice of this Religion is very simple. "We must learn what is true that we may do what is right." Right must take precedence of everything else, and that only is right which is in accordance with Natural laws—that is, with God's mode of working; for that most directly leads to the greatest good. It is this that makes it right. The Calvinists have put

Sovereign Will" as the measure of right, but that would be no rule of right for us unless it tended to the general good; right must always govern will, not will right, even in the Highest. As right is obedience to Law upon which the general happiness depends, and as nothing can continue long to exist that is not in harmony with such Law, right and might are the same. Of course this practice very much extends the boundary of ordinary morality and duty, for right claims equal obedience to all law-physical, moral, and intellectual. We cannot break any law, either voluntarily or involuntarily-from free will or necessity-without being made to suffer what has been called punishment; but the suffering is to teach us what is right and to enforce obedience. It is of no use praying to be let off: God makes no exception. He is no respecter of persons; He never forgives; and as punishment is for our good, it would be an injury to us if He did.

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From its earliest days a child should require no other reason for its conduct than because it is right. It will often have to trust to its parents to say what is right, and the same trust and faith and reverence should be transferred in after life to Natural Law-that is, to God. "I hold," says Prof. Huxley, in his letter to the Rev. W. H. Freemantle on the duties of the London Education Board, "that any system of education which attempts to deal only with the intellectual side of a child's nature, and leaves the rest untouched, will prove a delusion and a snare, just as likely to produce a crop of unusually astute scoundrels as anything else. In my belief, unless a child be taught not only that doing what is right is wise (which is morality), but also that the right is above all things beautiful and lovable (which, as I understand the term, is religion), education will come to very little." With this I think we all ought to agree. As the business of infancy is to connect the bodily movements with the mind, so the main educational business of later life is to connect all our movements in the same way with our sense of right. Justice is the great key-stone of the moral arch, and should take precedence of all other virtues—that is, it is more 'right" than all others. We may be often willing to put up with less than justice, and to take less than actually belongs to us, but it should be always under protest. It is this system of exact equivalents upon which the moral world moves, and is as necessary as the balance of action and reaction in the physical world. It is justice, or what is due to others, that prevents our passions and individual interests from trespassing upon their equal rights. Love is the sunshine of life, and hard though it may be, we can live without it; but we can no more live without justice than without the sun itself. It is this system of equivalents upon which moral chemistry is based. We must not only be just before we are generous, but just before all; for anything short of the claims of justice is so much taken from others to which they

are entitled. We may please ourselves whether we will give, but we have clearly no right to take away that which belongs to another. What a change it would immediately make in the world if no man by speech or action robbed another of what was due to him,-of neither his time, his fair fame, his labour, or his goods.

I have been the more solicitous thus to insist upon the claims of Justice, because a spurious Benevolence during the Christian era has been sapping the very foundations of morality. A charity that is not just, has been undermining self-reliance, self-dependence, and self-respect, and damaging the best interests of society. We are constantly placing ourselves between a man's actions and their natural consequences, and the effects have been such that it cannot be too often repeated that we must learn what is true, that we may do what is right.

THE END.

INDEX.

Absolute, The, 191.

Acquisitiveness, 76.

Ages, the Seven, necessity for the adjustment of our external relations
to our internal relations at the different periods of life, 331.
Alcohol and Tobacco, their effects, 320.

All the physical and mental powers to be developed in harmonious
proportion, 321.

Alphonso the Wise recommended an improvement in the Solar System
as then conceived on the Ptolemaic hypothesis, so theologians
make another world as an improvement upon this, 234.
Animalcules, 10.

Animals, their long existence on the earth before man, 19; Animal
bodies are but the organs through which Universal Mind acts, 253.
Anthropomorphism, 217; 238.

Argyll, Duke of, on matter and force, 169; on mind in nature, 232.
Aristotle on the difference between man and woman, 80.

Armstrong, Sir W. G., on Protection, Trades' Unions, Competition, 279.
Arnold, Matthew, on the language of metaphor, 217.

Arnott, Dr. Neil, on the four essentials to life, 125; on what civilisa-
tion has done for us, 327; table of man's knowledge of nature, 339.
A Science of Man not yet recognised, 294.

Associative Industry, or Co-operation, should include a farm, a fac-
tory, and a store, 289.

Atkinson, H. G., on Personal Identity, 97; on Will, 98; on Phreno-
mesmerism as a method of discovery of mental function, 173; on
the God of Nature, 232.

Atheism, 206.

Atmosphere, 6; our body's atmosphere, 60.

Atoms, 17.

Automatic Action, or unconscious intelligence, 167.

Bacon, Lord, on an unworthy opinion of God, 205; on Atheism, 232.
Baxter, Dudley, on our periodical distress, 271; on the National
Income, 272; 275.

Beauty, subjective, 19; standard of among American Indians, 84.
Benevolence, 91; misapplied, 92.

Bentham, Jeremy, on the springs of action, 115; on the necessity for
an external standard of morals, 120.

Berkeley, Bishop, 169; on tar water as a medicine, 294.
Belief, a feeling or emotion, 186.

Beesley, Prof., on the International Working Men's Association, 295.
Bird, Dr. Robert, on modification of tissue and quality of brain, 42;
the agencies by which tissue is changed, 42; on differences of
climate, 55; on terrestrial magnetism, 56-57; force or heat takes
its character from the tissue that has released it, 60; on vice and
lunacy, 226; on nervous centres, 159.

Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, on the vis medicatrix naturæ and
similar forces, 308.

Blood value of red corpuscles, 45.

Breeding: want to improve the breed of men, 316; can produce
almost any variety of plants and lower animals, 216, 317; how
much depends upon the choice of a wife, 317; facts wanted, 319;
systematically breed paupers and criminals, 322.

Bruyssl, von E., on natural rate of increase among caterpillars and
flies, 11.

Brain comparative weight, 22; in man and woman, 23-24; its
functions, 25-28; list of faculties, 31; dependent on the blood, 42;
conditions necessary for its perfect action, 68; we want to grow
more brains, 316.

Broughton, J., on animal force and animal food, 47.

Brown, Dr. Thomas, on the relativity of our knowledge, 104; on
consciousness, 106.

Bridges, Dr., on the difference between Positivists and French
Socialists, 283.

British Association, on the profoundly mysterious nature of the phe-
nomena of mind, 307.

British Constitution, how formed, 284.

Burke, Luke, on space and time, 102.

Buckle, H. T., on necessity, 109.

Butler, Bishop, all which we enjoy, and a greater part of what we
suffer, in our own power, 141.

Büchner, Dr. Louis, on the ascent from matter to mind, 161; on the
brain, 178; on final cause, 188.

Buddha, allowed to be not infallible within the domain of sense and
reason, 213; his doctrine of Nirwana, 220; Buddhism, 221.
Bunsen, Baron, on the God of the Israelitish and Christian Judaisers,
238.

Butterfly, its immortality very short, 249.

Byron, Lord, on the dog, 20.

Cæsar, Julius, on Life and Death, 71.
Cautiousness, 77.

Carlyle, Thomas, on Power and Ambition, 78; thou shalt as impera-
tive as thou shalt not, 142; on organisation of labour, 270; on the
latitudinarianism of the age, 212.

Caird and Cairns, Rev. Drs., on God and Nature, and on God's action
in accordance with law, 305.

Carlisle, Sir A., on Marriage, 318.

Causation; all power is will power, conscious or automatic, 224, 228;
Causation is the Will, Creation the Act, of God, 224.

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