thoughtful work on 'Appearance and Reality,' he says, "a future life must be taken as decidedly improbable." On the contrary, we hold that, to a purely natural theism, immortality is pledged by the goodness of the Deity, and it is demanded by the disorders and unexplained confusions of the world that now is. Surely it is no great undeserved compliment to the wisdom of the Deity to believe that this world is more than a comedy of errors. Shall we dare pronounce this universe of ours one huge blunder, which, had the power been ours, we should have blotted out for ever? More keen-sighted has our recent Christianly theistic philosophy of religion been to perceive what good reasons there may be for no more minute or detailed insight having been granted us into the nature of the life to come. It has, too, been more content to rest in the love of the Divine Father, of Whose ordering that life will be, and to cherish a firmer faith in that law of spiritual continuity whereby the eternal morrow shall mean the perfecting of the unfinished salvation and character of to-day. Hence it has been gradually recovering the confidence in a future life which the excessive dogmatism of so-called Christian systems had weakened in the minds of men. It has, in fact, maintained so deepening a hold, through every darkness and obscurity, upon the love of the Living Father, as to be able to say that, as for it, its unquenched hope is to behold His face in righteousness, and, THE GOAL OF IMMORTALITY. 531 in awaking after His likeness, to be therewith satisfied. "And shall I find no Father? Shall my being To an impossible goal, which none shall reach— Or, shall I heed them when they bid me take No care for aught but what my brain may prove? Vague whispers, inspirations, memories, Nay; my soul spurns it! Less it is to know But theirs, who, marking out the bounds of mind, Immeasurable land." Because the theistic advances of recent times have been what in this and previous chapters we have tried to portray, we close this work with the comforting reflection that, although philosophy is more than the individual philosopher, the theistic philosopher can yet to-day, with more piercing glance and more penetrative insight, with greater sweep of vision and more dauntless confidence of faith, make his own, notwithstanding those per plexities of the cosmos that remain, -for still, as Dante says, "insensate he who thinks with mortal ken to pierce Infinitude," "Matto è chi spera, che nostra ragione Possa trascorrer la infinita via,” the beautiful prayer of Geibel, with its fine spiritual daring and rich theistic sentiment, of which we venture to subjoin a rendering of our own in the form in which it was long ago cast off in leisure moments : "Herr, den ich tief im Herzen trage, sei Du mit mir! Du Gnadenhort in Glück und Plage, sei Du mit mir! Lord, Whom in depth of heart I bear, be Thou with me! INDEX OF AUTHORS AND SUBJECTS. Abbot, Dr Francis E., 90, 214, 294. Abgrund, 10. Absolute, the, 28, 30, 51, 75, 91, 95, 105, 133, 152, 222-224, 229, 259, 273, 275, Absolutism, scientific, 118, 406, 490. Adam, 340. Adaptations, 180, 190, 202, 209. Adjustment, Spencer on, 209. Esthetic, 38, 121, 199, 269, 330. Affections, the, 117-119, 320, 396, 397, 428, Agnosticism, 38, 57, 91, 95, 99, 122, 123, impossibility of, 122, 123, 494, 495. the Absolute of, 75, 91, 96, 123, 303, ἀληθινός, ὁ, 119. αὐτάρκεια, 390. Authority, reason and, 345. religion and, 386. Automatism, 412, 452. Autonomy, 262, 344, 347. Azara, 55. Baader, 61, 283, 286. Bain, Prof., 150, 367, 375, 402, 410. Balfour, Arthur James, 90, 263, 341, 345, 403, 421. criticism of, 293. Banks, Prof. J. S., 79, 126. Baur, 501. Bavinck, Prof., of Kampen, 259. Causalbegriff, 154. Causality, freedom and, 407, 409. Kant on, 146, 150-152, 154, 161. Martineau on, 150. metaphysic of, 142, 144, 149. Mill on, 146, 163, 180. Prof. Riehl and, 162, 163. Prof. Royce and, 161. Causation, efficient, 143, 154, 176, 196. volitional type of, 148, 164. Cause and effect, 145, 153, 156, 165. efficient, 143, 154, 171, 196. Prof. Flint on, 157. final, 174, 177, 191, 192, 208, 212, 214. Cazenove, Dr, 239. Certitude, 386. Chalmers, Dr Thomas, 255, 444. Chalybäus, 105. on Hegel, 93. on personality of God, 291. Chemistry, 519. Christ, 396, 456, 465, 466, 468, 470, 472, Christ-consciousness, 382, 383, 388. 'Christian Doctrine,' Dr Dale's, 476. Christianity, 41, 66, 73, 80, 382, 465, 471. sin and, 465, 468, 471, 478. Christlieb, 345. Church, redemption of the, 471. thought of the, 482. Civilisation, 499, 506. Clarke, 149, 218. Clifford, Prof., 367, 369, 372, 423, 497. Cobbe, Miss, 299. Cocker, Dr, 294. Cognition, theoretic, 36, 316, 346. Coleridge, 221. Communion, 312, 471, 525. Comparative method in mythology, 52. psychology, 339. religion, 22. Complexity of modern problems,* 355. of personality, 324, 369, 394. of religious devotion, 48. Comte, 73, 146, 163, 200, 220, 221, 369, 499, Concreteness, 97, 104, 268, 439- 'Connaissance de Dieu,' Gratry's, 232. |