And see how the world has changed since that was proclaimed! It is hardly necessary now to make that affirmation, so universal has become the acceptance of it.

It is almost difficult to look back to the year 1875, and realise how men were thinking and feeling then.

I can remember it, because I was in it.

The elder amongst you can remember it, for the same reason.

But for the younger of you, who have begun to think and feel in the later times, when this thought was becoming common, you can scarcely realise the change in the intellectual atmosphere which has come about during these last two-and-thirty years.