Instinct is
Unprovable.

"An instinct is any part of

our spiritual capital which has not been contributed by education or revelation; and our two chief instincts are God and immortality.

. An

instinct must not be proved; for the proof of an instinct is its denial.". Dr. John Watson.

Does Belief entail Character ?

"I think it a most formidable responsibility, at the least, in these times, to doubt any man's character on account of his opinions. The limit of possible variation between character and opinion, ay between character and belief, is widening, and will widen." Glad

stone.

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Retrogression, Nature attains her ends, not in a series of straight

or Circularity,

the Law of

lines, but in a series of circles. Life is a ceaseless vortex. . . .

Every death is a new birth, every grave a cradle. . . . There is nothing fixed or final; all things are passing through cycles of decay or revivification"—the seasons, civilisations, etc. -Dr. Hugh Macmillan.

Love and Hate are Alike.

"It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development, supposes a high degree of intimacy and heart-knowledge; each leaves the passionate lover, or the no less passionate hater, forlorn and desolate by the withdrawal of his subject. Philosophically considered, therefore, the two passions seem essentially the same."-Hawthorne.

Antiquity

"The

mere antiquity of

Belittles Man. Asiatic things, of their insti

tutions, histories, modes of faith, etc.,

is so impressive, that to me the vast
age
of the race and name overpowers
the sense of youth in the individual.
Man is a weed in those regions."

-De Quincey.

Sublimity is from the Hebrews.

"Could you ever discover anything sublime, in our sense of the word, in the classic Greek literature? I never could. Sublimity is of Hebrew birth."Coleridge.

Vanity, a

"It is only a man of no Product of the imagination who has no vanity.

Imagination. He cannot imagine himself

any better than he is."-F. Marion Crawford.

Certitude u.
Doubt.

"Certitude, of course, is a point; but doubt is a progress.

Again, a practical, effective doubt is a point too."-Newman.

One Soul is

the Model of all Souls.

"What is microscopic in one

man is largely developed in another; what is rudimentary in one is an active organ in another; but all things are in all men, and one soul is the model of all."- Olive Schreiner.

'History is never falsified Poets, the True Historians. in the hands of the poets. They interpret the spirit of history faithfully. There are some peoples who hand down their history solely through poetry-for example, the Indians. In this respect I might assert that Walter Scott's novels sometimes render the spirit of English history more truly than Hume does."-Heine.

Scientific

"Faith."

"The scientist draws as largely on fiction for the solu

tion of his difficulty, when he affirms

that life is an attribute or property of protoplasm, as the non-scientist can do when he accepts the doctrine that man lives because the Creator breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. In short, Science gains nothing in point of precision by scepticism in matters of religion. The scientist simply draws on conjecture in his own province, to compensate him for the lack of that aid which is offered him from the province of Revelation."-The Lancet.

The Soul:

"The soul in man is not What it is. an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function like the power of memory, of calculation, of comparison, but uses these as hands and feet; is not a faculty, but a light; is not the intellect, or the will, but the master of