[44] See Froude's _The Earl of Beaconsfield_ (9th Edition), pp. 176, 177: "The discoveries of science are not, we are told, consistent with the teachings of the Church.... It is of great importance when this tattle about science is mentioned, that we should attach to the phrase precise ideas. The function of science is the interpretation of nature, and the interpretation of the highest nature is the highest science. What is the highest nature? Man is the highest nature. But I must say that when I compare the interpretation of the highest nature by the most advanced, the most fashionable school of modern science with some other teaching with which we are familiar I am not prepared to admit that the lecture room is more scientific than the Church. What is the question now placed before society, with a glib assurance the most astounding? The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I, my Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence the contrary view, which I believe foreign to the conscience of humanity." [45] See p. 37. [46] Spencer, _Social Statics_ (Ed. 1892), p. 27. [47] _Ibid_., p. 31. [48] Two Christian principles are concealed here: 1. The depravity of man. 2. Faith in a moral order of things. [49] I have discussed this question, with as much detail as the space would allow, in _Nietzsche, his Life and Works_, Chap. IV. (Constable's Philosophies Ancient and Modern). See also my letter, "Nietzsche and Science," in the _Spectator_ of 8th January, 1910. [50] _G. M._, p. 17. [51] _A History of Æsthetic_, p. 445. [52] _A._, Aph. 43. [53] _Culture and Anarchy_ (Smith, Elder, 1909), p. 10. [54] _Z._, I, XXII. Lecture II[1] Government in Art. Nietzsche's Definition of Art Part I Divine Art and the Man-God "And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth."--Genesis i. 28. Man has ceased from believing in miracles, because he is convinced that the divine power of the miracle-worker has departed from him. At last he has proclaimed the age of wonders to be at an end, because he no longer knows himself capable of working wonders. He acknowledges that miracles are still needed. He hears the distressing cry for the super-natural everywhere. All about him to-day he feels that wonders will have to be worked if the value of Life, of his fellows, and of himself is to be raised, by however little; and yet he halts like one paralyzed before the task he can no longer accomplish, and finding that his hand has lost its cunning and that his eye has lost its authority, he stammers helplessly that the age of miracles has gone by.