Others again contend that this loss is a gain.

Such views as these, however, are not much to the purpose.

For those even, according to whom life has lost most in this way, do not consider the loss a very important, still less a fatal one.
The _good_ is still to be an aim for us, and our devotion to it will be more valuable because it will be quite disinterested.

Thus Dr.Tyndall informs us that though he has now rejected the religion of his earlier years, yet granting him proper health of body, there is '_no spiritual experience_,' such as he then knew, '_no resolve of duty, no word of mercy, no act of self-renouncement, no solemnity of thought, no joy in the life and aspects of nature, that would not still be_' his.

The same is the implicit teaching of all George Eliot's novels; whilst Professor Huxley tells us that come what may to our '_intellectual beliefs and even education_,' '_the beauty of holiness and the ugliness of sin_' will remain for those that have eyes to see them, '_no mere metaphors, but real and intense feelings_.' These are but a few examples, but the view of life they illustrate is so well known that these few will suffice.