We may humbly pray then that God's gracious favour may rest on this Course of Lectures, and may be permitted to bear a blessing to those that read it. May they feel anew convinced in heart and spirit that we have not "followed cunningly devised fables," but that in the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament there is light and truth, even because they bring us nearer to Him who is the Truth, as He is the Way and the Life, for evermore. C. J. GLOUCESTER AND BRISTOL. _July 19, 1871._ FOOTNOTES: [1] "Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences." [2] Mr. Wallace, in the "Anthropological Journal," 1864; see also Lubbock's "Prehistoric Times," last chapter. [3] Moleschott, "Circulation of Life:" Letter XVIII., with Liebig's opinion there quoted. [4] Kant, "Metaphysics of Ethics." [5] See, for example, Renouvier, "Science de la Morale," 1869. [6] "Limits of Philosophical Enquiry." 1868. [7] Nehem. ix. 6. [8] See Duke of Argyll's "Reign of Law." [9] Job xxvi. 14. [10] Plutarch, "De Justitia." [11] Buchner. [12] See Mill on Comte, p. 62, _seq._ [13] Paroles de Philosophic Positive, p. 54. [14] Janet refers to Nysten's Dictionnaire de Médecine, etc., by Littré and Robin. [15] Paroles de Philosophie Positive, p. 53. [16] Harris's Highlands of Œthiopia, vol. iii. p. 63. [17] While these sheets were passing through the press, I read in the _Pall Mall Gazette_ for April 24th, as follows: One of the Communist papers, the _Montagne_, writes: "Education has made sceptics of us; the Revolution of 1871 is atheistic; our Republic wears a bouquet of immortelles in her bosom. We take our dead to their homes, and our wives to our hearts without a prayer. Priests! throw aside your frocks, turn up your sleeves, lay your hands upon the plough, for a song to the lark in the morning air is better than a mumbling of psalms, and an ode to sparkling wine is preferable to a chanting of hymns. Our dogs that used only to growl when a bishop passed will bite him now, and not a voice will be raised to curse the day which dawns for the sacrifice of the Archbishop of Paris. We owe it to ourselves, we owe it to the world. The Commune has promised us an eye for an eye, and has given us Monseigneur Darboy as a hostage. The justice of the tribunals shall commence, said Danton, when the wrath of the people is appeased; and he was right. Darboy! tremble in your cell, for your day is past, your end is close at hand." [18] I use this word because if the value of faith and virtue consists in their being a discipline, while this implies the existence of difficulty, it also limits the degree of the difficulty. [19] "Rudiments," so far from disproving, prove this. A rudiment shows that nature might have given more, but has not done so. Why? Because the further gift would have been useless, for instance, man would not have been benefited by being able to feel with his eye-brows. (See Darwin, "Descent of Man," i. 25.)