It remains to assign to _La Saisiaz_ the position which, as a declaration of faith, it occupies in relation to the poems we have already considered. In _Caliban_, dealing with a peculiar phase of "Natural Theology," we found the suggestions of a deity those derived from the conceptions of a semi-savage being, with whom the intellectual development would seem to have outrun the moral. Passing to the reflections of Cleon, with the Greek theory and practice of life there set forth, we reached the utmost heights attainable by paganism. In _Bishop Blougram's Apology_ the unbelief threatening was not that of paganism in the early interpretation of the word, but of the paganism which would substitute authority for faith. With _Christmas Eve_ came the individual choice of creed, the voluntary acceptance of the position of worshipper at one of the narrow shrines of human invention; but an acceptance which involved likewise a personal faith in the divinity of Jesus Christ. The faith thus accepted received fuller analysis and investigation through the questionings of _Easter Day_. But all these poems are, as we have been forced to conclude, more or less dramatic in character, the first three wholly, the two last to a degree which we have attempted to define. Only with _La Saisiaz_ do we reach the undisguised and definite expression of Browning's personal faith, the basis, though not the culmination of which, is emphatically asserted as a belief in the soul and in God. At first sight it may appear disappointing to many readers that the irreducible minimum of the creed should contain but these two tenets. On this ground, indeed, we might have been tempted, had such a transposition been justifiable to place _La Saisiaz_ before, instead of after, _Christmas Eve and Easter Day_, allowing the profession of faith on La Salève to serve as a foundation for the superstructure supplied by the arguments of the listener without the Lecture Hall at Göttingen. On consideration, however, nothing is discoverable in the position occupied by the author of _La Saisiaz_ to render untenable that held by the soliloquist of _Christmas Eve_ or the First Speaker of _Easter Day_. There is, as we have indeed noticed, a marked similarity between the arguments employed in the two last cases (_La Saisiaz_ and _Easter Day_) and in the conclusions reached: in both, the assurance that in the probationary character of this present life, with its possibilities for spiritual development through the exercise of faith, lies its main value.