instinct, this return to dead, mechanical obedience, were then preferable. But if we adopt the doctrine of a personal God from Christianity, we shall see that all evil lies coiled up in the undeveloped state of the germ, inasmuch as that state is passive and lacks freedom and responsibility; and, therefore, does not reflect in its self-activity the life of the Creator. To ascend from this unconscious (and sinless) life of the germ, to a free, conscious realization of its ideal, and hence from a possible image of God to an actual one, is the destiny for man and the purpose of Providence in history. All steps lead thither; and it will be found that all the evils of society are contingent upon the transition from external, mechanical, unconscious life to the free, conscious life of developed civilization.

"Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro' the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger day;

Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay."