The other line of development marks not the course of a speculation, but the growth of a faith laying hold of mankind with creative and transforming power. This faith, never dissociated from, but seeking to dominate and reform actual life, condemned inertion, and fostered hope for a race working out its salvation, because convinced that God is working in them both to will and to do. We see a light streaming from above into the darkness of man, paining and blinding at first the organs which it seeks to purify. We see a struggle on the part of the creatures to bring the Most High down to their level, and make Him their servant, and a striving of the Divine Spirit to train them as children. We see a mighty Hand laid ever on a peculiar people, at times so softly that they hardly felt it, at times with conscious guiding and sustaining power; at times chastising them sorely by the sword of the enemy and the heart-hunger of exile, but never giving them over unto death. Not for forty years, but for twice forty generations we see Him leading and humbling and proving them, till in the souls of the aptest—though only “a remnant” of them—He had rooted ideals of human destiny which never can perish. Then, that all might be ready in the fulness of time, He scattered them among the nations, and lo! when required they are everywhere, crying in the crowded capitals of the East and of the West, in the darkness of the North and the brightness of the South, “Prepare ye in the desert an highway for the Lord.” Footnote 62: Introduction to _Le Bouddha et sa Religion_; Paris, 1858. Footnote 63: Müller, Introd. to _Sacred Books of the East_, vol. i. p. xxi. Footnote 64: A. Burnell, _Indian Antiq._, 1880, p. 223, quoted by Prof. Max Müller in Introduction to vol. x. of _Sacred Books of the East_, p. xi. Footnote 65: Frankfurter, Appendix to Wordsworth’s Bampton Lectures for 1881; _The One Religion_, p. 340; Eitel _Lectures on Buddhism_, p. 44; Edkins, _Chinese Buddhism_, p. 232. Footnote 66: Prof. Max Müller, Introduction to vol. i. of _Sacred Books of the East_, p. xxvii. Footnote 67: A. E. Gough, _Philosophy of the Upanishads, etc._, p. 5; Trübner’s Oriental Series. Footnote 68: This statement is hazarded, notwithstanding the recent reply of the author of _Supernatural Religion_ to Bishop Lightfoot’s Essays. It will be generally conceded that he has adopted an untenable position, and that, though his rejoinder to the learned Bishop may be a vigorous assault, it is weak criticism. Sanday’s work on _The Gospels in the Second Century_ is on the whole a better reply than the Bishop’s to the allegations of the author of _Supernatural Religion_, whose extreme scepticism of literary evidence is quite equalled by his dogmatic extravagance of statement. Footnote 69: _Vie de Jésus_, Introd. pp. xv, xvii, 4th ed.; Paris, 1863. Footnote 70: _Science de Religions_, pp. 12, 20. Footnote 71: