Thought is a reflex of the Eternal mind, a glass to give man back the truth" (of Being).

"The springs of Being are the springs of thought."

If our nature were not akin to the divine we could not conceive the divine-conception being according to Being.

"The outward finite life must be pervaded by the sense of the infinite and eternal, and so enjoyed, not separated."

"And to this end all who have been filled with the divine idea have laboured, and shall still labour, that this consciousness in its purest possible form may be spread throughout the race."Fichte.

"Our idea of order is what we mean when we speak of putting together anything ourselves with a meaning and a reason."

"Out of the understanding of the subject-object or Ego arises the belief in God through recognition of a similar mind and moral nature manifested in nature." The knowableness of things by us means their adaptedness to reason; we are thus really conscious of a Non-ego through recognition of similars.

"God attracts us, says Newman, principally through the affections and the conscience. The light we see is not the less to be trusted because of the darkness beyond. To say we can believe nothing because we do not know all things, is to do violence to the constitution of our Being. Let us welcome thankfully the gradual widening of the region of light of which we have experience. It is altogether reasonable to believe that what we know not is in harmony with what we know, could we but see it."-Macleod Campbell.

"There is one token for us that we are meant for a higher and happier life than this in the fact that sorrow and sin always come upon us as a surprise, whilst happy days do not astonish us, nor does goodness awaken amazement in us." (This testifies to the instinctively conceived ideal of life, or rather divinely inplanted ideal within us of life as happiness.)

"The order of nature is discovered or observed, not laid down by us.

"The place of a people in the scale of human development is determined by the condition of its women."

"What we mean by truth is correspondence with our con

sciousness. The opposite or contradiction of consciousness is the inconceivable by reason. The negation of self-consciousness is the inconceivable or necessarily untrue."

"It is only kindred griefs that draw forth our tears." Griefs, i.e., similar to those we have ourselves experienced."

"The question will for ever remain, what education will best fit women to fulfil their relation to the other sex?"

"The maternal function tends to tenderness of heart, and the consequent relation of the temporarily invalided and incapacitated to the bread-winner and protector both of mother and child." "The rational relations between the sexes are based on vital relations."

"What is present in Being is the source of truth, or of the representations of consciousness."

"To get to the root of the secret powers that hold together this world of ours."-Faust. This can only be done by reason, "substitution of similars."

A Suffi Persian poet says, "Reason is the diver who plunges into the depths of Being for the pearls of truth."

"No fact is so minute as to be incapable of affecting such scientific generalisations as relate to it."

President Edwards says, "If we expel Being out of our minds, we must think of the somewhat that the sleeping rocks do dream of" (i.e., nothing).

"Speculation, to be rational, must be based on induction" (of laws from facts of experience).

"The specialists provide the facts for the speculative mind." "Evidence can only produce conviction according to the understanding of the individual." "I can give you a reason," said Dr. Johnson, "but not an understanding."

"The attainment of the knowledge of the true is the first duty of man."

"Salvation from doubt is what man needs."

"Science is founded upon facts; conclusions must always be correlated with facts."

"Science demands as a primary condition the absolute verification of the alleged facts with which it has to deal." (Verification is in the last resort reflective and subjective.)

Nothing has any existence except in consciousness, created or uncreated." If it made no effect upon a conscious being, existence could not be predicated of it.

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Duty demands that we should follow truth wherever it leads." We are responsible to our Creator for the faithful use or exercise of our intellect.

Aristotle says, "In matters of taste individuals are necessarily one-sided; one is capable of appreciating one excellence, another, another."

"Faith in the ideas of reason is a sure ground of confidence; they are the raw material of thought."

"Materialism is but a physico-metaphysical philosophy." "Rhythmical self-completion" (marriage).

"Gefühl ist alle."-Goethe.

Socrates quotes from the Greek poets, "God is ever drawing like towards like." Empedocles preached the gospel of loveAlmighty love.

"It is feeling that to human thought is nourishment."

"Education should be a system for adjusting a person's surroundings to their higher needs."

"One idea connected with the word good is completeness." "Good living or happiness."-Aristotle.

"Benevolence the common bond."

"An alliance has no common end; its law is a mere contract (mere external correspondence; union is internal).

"Principles must not be self-destructive." Surely the altruist I will allow that.

"The brain cannot think unless the heart beats."

"The study of harmony is useful for the investigation of the beautiful and the good."-Plato.

"Order is rational; the good for Being is the end of order."Plato.

"C'était la moitié de mon âme qui m'était rendue, je retrouvais la notion de la vie, solidarité humaine" (rational basis of morals).-George Sand.

"The pig to the pig, the ass to the ass is beautiful.”—Horace. "I feel a unity in all aims, all hopes, since I have known. you. Life seems symmetrical and coherent (correspondence

of subject and object) and "worth living."-Story of Avis (American).

"But yet we hope that somehow good will be the final end of all."-Tennyson.

"To its own impulse every creature stirs."

"Love is the spring of force and joy, which, penetrating all, sets the blind seed of Being, and from the bond of incomplete ideal essences wakes the harmony which is life.”

"Love the spring and cause of things. Love, with fiery accents calling, wakes the slumbering soul."-Epic of Hades.

"Once read thine own breast right, and thou hast done with fears. Man gets no other light, search he a thousand years. Sink in thyself; there ask what ails thee at that shrine."Matthew Arnold.

""Tis that the lot they have fails their own will to please." "Heaven is the vision of fulfilled desire.”—Persian poet. "Yet thoroughly to believe in one's own self, so one's self were thorough, were to do great things."-Tennyson.

"It seemed to her that these prayers, which bore the burden of centuries of half-inarticulate human longing, surrounded her like everlasting arms; and upon the Church which held the cry of ages she leaned her head, as John did upon the bosom of his Lord."-The Story of Avis.

Qui veut la fin, veut les moyens." "Were we omniscient, or understanding perfectly what is required for our development, we might of our own free will entreat that no cup, however bitter, might pass by us untasted."

"After long agony, rapture and bliss;

Right was the pathway leading to this."

The satisfaction of rational desire, not the extinction of it, as Buddha and the Stoics taught, is happiness. Dante describes the third heaven, where he sees Beatrice, and has the perfect vision of the Supreme Being, as "Dove il desio fini," and the long agony of patience with which the Saints cry, "How long, Lord! how long!"

"Quand la vie est mauvaise on la rêve meilleure,

Des yeux en pleurs au ciel se lévent à toute heure e;

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L'espoir vers Dieu se tourne et Dieu l'entend crier,

Laissez tout ce qui pleure prier."

-Victor Hugo.

Finding itself in the midst of that which knows no rest, in the midst of that which is ever changing, the soul is constrained by its nature or constitution to look for that which is abiding—the real, the eternal.” This alone brings that sense of reconciliation with God and His providence for which distressed spirits pinethis is the possible explanation of the burdens which oppress and bear man down. "The pain of the present may have a far-off interest. This conviction can only spring from faith in an eternal order which encloses (apparent) disorder, and constrains it to some perfect end."

"That we must fall back upon the existence of a power behind nature, the support and cause of that which is phenomenal, even the most decided agnostics admit."

It is the adoration of this Divine Being which alone satisfies the deep-seated capacity for reverence and awe in human nature on which the sense of duty reposes; this it is that allots to self love and social love their proper limits, through the ultimate reference of both to the Source and Ordainer of each. Religion is thus the natural basis of personal morality -as of love to our spiritual brethren. And it is also the strongest stimulus to the pursuit of truth— all knowledge being ultimately knowledge of the Being, activity, and wisdom of God, from whom all