The arguments adduced by infidels, in support of their unbelief, have never been rebutted in verse more cleverly than by Tennyson. His blade flashes like lightning, and severs with as fine a stroke as Saladin's scimitar. _The Two Voices_ may be cited in proof, and also the following passages in the matchless elegy on Arthur Hallam: The Fates not blind, (_In Memoriam_) iii. Life shall live for evermore. (_In Memoriam_) xxxiv. If Death were death, love would not be true love, (_In Memoriam_) xxxv. Individuality defies the tomb, (_In Memoriam_) xlvi. Immortality, (_In Memoriam_) liv. lv. Doubt issuing in belief. (_In Memoriam_) xcv. Knowledge without wisdom. (_In Memoriam_) cxiii. Progress, (_In Memoriam_) cxvii. We are not all matter. (_In Memoriam_) cxix. The course of human things, (_In Memoriam_) cxxvii These verses are no doubt the record of a mental conflict carried on during some years of the author's earlier life--a battle between materialism and spiritualism, between faith and unbelief, reason and sense. The _Two Voices_ is philosophy singing, as _In Memoriam_ is philosophy in tears. The _English Cyclopaedia_ well calls the last poem "wonderful," and adds: "In no language, probably, is there another series of elegies so deep, so metaphysical, so imaginative, so musical, and showing such impassioned, abnormal, and solemnizing affection for the dead."