In a little book of his called _Belief and Life_ he has the following passages: In the long last men cannot be persuaded to deny their own moral nature, and they will not be content with a theory of the universe which does not satisfy their sense of right.
And because of this very sense of right they entertain no soft and sentimental notions concerning the universe: They believe in judgment, in retribution, and in the great principle that "as a man sows, so shall he also reap." They therefore require that room shall be found in the scheme of things for the working out of this principle.

They recognise that such room is not to be found in this present life, and so they accept the fact that God hath set eternity in our hearts, and that we are built on a scale which requires a more abundant life to complete it.
In corroboration of their faith, it may be said, as John Stuart Mill used to argue, that wherever belief in the future has been strong and vivid, it has made for human progress.

There is no doubt that the deterioration of religion and the more material views of life so prevalent just now are due to the loss of faith in the future.
Religion, he says, can never live or be effective within the narrow circle of time and sense.

Nevertheless he has the courage to say: "The future life, like the belief in God, is best treated as an hypothesis that is yet in process of verification." But this hypothesis explains what else were inexplicable.

It works.