soul, was torn loose from this order of life. It was not capable of giving him one emotion that could illumine and fill his own life with anything of human worth. There was one thing only, which could give the worker any sense of what a "man" is, one thing only that seemed to have emerged from the old order of life endowed with the power that awakens faith, and that was--scientific thought. It may arouse a smile in some of those who read this, to be told of the "scientific" character of the worker's conceptions. Let them smile, who can only think of the scientific habit of mind as something that is acquired by many years of application on the benches of "educational institutes," and then contrast this sort of "science" with what fills the mind of the worker who has "never learnt anything." What is for him a smiling matter, are facts of modern life on which the fate of the future turns. And these facts shew, that many a very learned man lives unscientifically, whereas the unlearned worker brings his whole view of life into line with that scientific learning, of which very likely nothing has fallen to his share. The educated man has made a place for science,--it has a pigeon-hole of its own in the recesses of his soul. But he himself has his place in a network of circumstances in actual life, and it is these which give the direction to his feelings. His feeling is not directed by his science. The worker, through the very conditions of his life, is led to bring his conception of existence into unison with the general tone of this science. He may be very far from what the other classes call "scientific," yet his life's course is charted by the scientific lines of conception. For the other classes, some religious or aesthetic, some general spiritual principle is the determining basis;--for him, Science is turned into the creed of life,--even though often it may be science filtered away to its last little shallows and driblets of thought. Many a member of the "foremost" classes feels himself to be "enlightened" in religion, a "free-thinker." No doubt his scientific convictions influence his conceptions; but in his feelings still throb the forgotten remnants of a traditional creed of life. What the scientific type of thought has not brought down from the old order, is the consciousness of being, as a spiritual type, rooted in a spiritual world. This was a peculiarity of the modern scientific outlook, which presented no difficulty to a member of the leading classes. Life to him was filled by old traditions. For the worker it was otherwise; his new situation in life drove the old traditions from his soul. He took over from the ruling classes as heritage the scientific mode of thought, and made this the basis of his consciousness of the life and being of man. But this "spiritual possession," with which he filled his soul, knew nothing of its derivation from an actual life of the spirit. The