59. All human creatures, in all ages and places of the world, who have had warm affections, common sense, and self-command, have been, and are, Naturally Moral. Human nature in its fulness is necessarily Moral,--without Love, it is inhuman, without sense,[70] inhuman,--without discipline, inhuman. [Footnote 70: I don't mean aesthesis,--but [Greek: nous], if you _must_ talk in Greek slang.] In the exact proportion in which men are bred capable of these things, and are educated to love, to think, and to endure, they become noble,--live happily--die calmly: are remembered with perpetual honour by their race, and for the perpetual good of it. All wise men know and have known these things, since the form of man was separated from the dust. The knowledge and enforcement of them have nothing to do with religion: a good and wise man differs from a bad and idiotic one, simply as a good dog from a cur, and as any manner of dog from a wolf or a weasel. And if you are to believe in, or preach without half believing in, a spiritual world or law--only in the hope that whatever you do, or anybody else does, that is foolish or beastly, may be in them and by them mended and patched and pardoned and worked up again as good as new--the less you believe in--and most solemnly, the less you talk about--a spiritual world, the better. 60. But if, loving well the creatures that are like yourself, you feel that you would love still more dearly, creatures better than yourself--were they revealed to you;--if striving with all your might to mend what is evil, near you and around, you would fain look for a day when some Judge of all the Earth shall wholly do right, and the little hills rejoice on every side; if, parting with the companions that have given you all the best joy you had on Earth, you desire ever to meet their eyes again and clasp their hands,--where eyes shall no more be dim, nor hands fail;--if, preparing yourselves to lie down beneath the grass in silence and loneliness, seeing no more beauty, and feeling no more gladness--you would care for the promise to you of a time when you should see God's light again, and know the things you have longed to know, and walk in the peace of everlasting Love--_then_, the Hope of these things to you is religion, the Substance of them in your life is Faith. And in the power of them, it is promised us, that the kingdoms of this world shall yet become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ. [Illustration: Plan of West porches of Amiens Cathedral] APPENDICES. I. CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS REFERRED TO IN THE 'BIBLE OF AMIENS.' II. REFERENCES EXPLANATORY OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS ILLUSTRATING CHAPTER IV. III. GENERAL PLAN OF 'OUR FATHERS HAVE TOLD US.' APPENDIX I. _CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS REFERRED TO IN THE 'BIBLE OF AMIENS.'_ A.D. PAGE