To me your method of solution seems a deliberate insistence on the worldly in human nature, sure to have the practical result of making men more and more savagely materialist: I see no hope whatever that you will inspire the world with enthusiasm for a noble civilisation by any theory based on biological teaching.

From my point of view, a man becomes noble _in spite_ of the material laws which condition his life, never in consequence of them.

If you ask me how and why--I bow my head and keep silence." "Can you maintain," asked Dyce, respectfully, "that Christianity is still a civilising power ?" "To all appearances," was the grave answer, "Christianity has failed--utterly, absolutely, glaringly failed.

At this moment, the world, I am convinced, holds more potential barbarism than did the Roman Empire under the Antonines.

Wherever I look, I see a monstrous contrast between the professions and the practice, between the assumed and the actual aims, of so-called Christian peoples.