The same belief, whilst it inspires the utterances of Pompilia and of Abt Vogler, of the Grammarian and the lover of _Evelyn Hope_, is likewise discernible as underlying, though possibly less consciously instigating the reflections of Luria and of the organist of _Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha_, of Andrea del Sarto and of the victim of a prudence outweighing love, in _Dîs Aliter Visum_. And progress is the recognized law of Faith as of Life. The existence of Truth, absolute, does not preclude its gradual revelation and realization. In the _Epilogue_ to the _Dramatis Personae_, Browning, by the mouth of the "Third Speaker," would point out that the lamentation of Rénan over a vanished faith is unwarranted by fact since, Truth existing in its entirety, the peculiar revelations of Truth are adapted to each successive stage of the development of the human race. Hence "that Face," the vestige even of which the "Second Speaker" held to be "lost in the night at last," That one Face, far from vanish, rather grows, Or decomposes but to recompose, Become my universe that feels and knows. A fuller realization of Truth has become possible in these later days than in the past of Jewish ritual, when The presence of the Lord, _In the glory of His cloud_, Had filled the House of the Lord. Of _Easter Day_ it has been remarked in this connection, "If Mr. Browning has meant to say ... that religious certainties are required for the undeveloped mind, but that the growing intelligence walks best by a receding light, he denies the positive basis of Christian belief."[72] Comparing this criticism with the treatment in _A Death in the Desert_ of the subject of faith in relation to the Incarnation, it becomes sufficiently clear that an acceptance of "the positive basis of Christian belief" was to Browning's mind perfectly compatible, not indeed with "a receding light," but with that absence of certainty in matters spiritual which the First Speaker of _Easter Day_ accepts as inevitable. And surely the suggestion in _Easter Day_, as elsewhere in Browning, is that the development of the "religious intelligence" is best advanced, not by _a receding light_, but by that ever-increasing illuminative power which shall effect gradually the revelation presented in the Vision of the Judgment as the work of a moment. The revelation of the true relation between things temporal and spiritual, between the divine and the human. For, whilst St. John bases his arguments upon the central assurance that "God the Truth" is, of all things, alone unchangeable, immediately upon the assurance follows the assertion-- Man apprehends Him newly at each stage Whereat earth's ladder drops, its service done.[73] Since "such progress" as is the peculiar characteristic of human nature