world, in the days of its youth, could not "walk by reason and conscience alone:" (p. 21:) but it is not so with us, in these, the days of the world's manhood. "The spiritual power within us ... must be the rightful monarch of our lives." (p. 14.) _We_, (he says,) "walk by reason and conscience _alone_." (p. 21.) Now this is none other than a deliberate dethroning of GOD; and a setting up of Self in His place. "A revelation speaking from without and not from within, is an external Law, and not a spirit,"--(p. 36,) says Dr. Temple. But I answer,--A revelation speaking from within, and not from without, is _no revelation at all_. "The thought of building a tower high enough to escape GOD's wrath, could enter into no man's dreams," (p. 7,) says Dr. Temple in the beginning of his Essay, in derision of the Old World. But he has carried out into act the very self-same thought, himself; and his "dreams" occupy the foremost place in 'Essays and Reviews.' He teaches, openly, that henceforth Man must learn by "_obedience to the rules of his own mind_." (p. 34.) He is express in declaring that "an external law" is for the age which is past, (pp. 34-5.) Ours is "an internal law;" "which bids us yield,"--not to the revealed Will of GOD, "but,--to the majesty of truth and justice; _a law which is not imposed upon us by another power, but by our own enlightened will_." (p. 35.) In this, the last stage of the Colossal Man's progress, Dr. Temple gives him four avenues of learning: (1) Experience, (2) Reflection, (3) Mistakes, (4) Contradiction. By withholding from this enumeration _the Revealed Will of GOD_, and _the known sanctions of the Divine Law_, he _thrusts out GOD_ from every part of his scheme; denies that He is even one of the present teachers of the Human Race,--explaining that the time has even gone by when CHRIST could teach by example[31],--"for the faculty of Faith has turned inwards, and cannot now accent any outer manifestations of the truth of GOD[32]." (p. 24.)--By this Essay, Dr. Temple comes forward as the open abettor of the most boundless scepticism. Whether or no his statements be such as Ecclesiastical Courts take cognizance of, is to me a matter of profound unimportance. In the estimation of the whole Church, it can be entitled to but one sentence. "We use the Bible," (he tells us,) "not to override, but to evoke the voice of conscience." (p. 44.) "The current is all one way,--it evidently points to the identification of the Bible with the voice of conscience. The Bible, in fact, is hindered by its form from exercising a despotism (!) over the human spirit; if it could do that, it would become an outer law at once." (p. 45.) Even if men "could appeal to a revelation from Heaven, they would still be under the Law (!!!); for a Revelation speaking from without, and not from within, is an external Law, and not a Spirit." (p. 36.) "The principle of private judgment puts conscience between us and the Bible; making