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But we do not prepay postage on less than a year, nor when we have to pay commission for forwarding the money; nor when we club THE LIVING AGE with another periodical. An extra copy of THE LIVING AGE is sent gratis to any one getting up a club of Five New Subscribers. Remittances should be made by bank draft or check, or by post-office money-order, if possible. If neither of these can be procured, the money should be sent in a registered letter. All postmasters are obliged to register letters when requested to do so. Drafts, checks and money-orders should be made payable to the order of LITTELL & GAY. From The British Quarterly Review. IMMORTALITY.* That there should be even room for this point, it is unnecessary for the purposes of our present argument to lay stress It has been said that a temporary weak- upon it. The complete refutation of a ening or even eclipse of the belief in a fu- proposition is really the establishment of ture life among the English people gener- its converse; and a task, which possesses ally may be the penalty for erroneous an intrinsic importance for the statesman teaching in times past, and that there are not less than for theologians, whatever be grave reasons for thinking that this result its result, may be undertaken more hopemay be experienced at no distant day. fully if, as we believe, we can show that Whether this opinion be right or wrong, the dogmas of the new system have no and whether the change which it antici- corresponding reality in the world of pates be a danger to be feared or a bene- facts. fit to be welcomed, there can be no question that the state of things thus brought confidence is in itself a matter well deabout would involve the most momentous consequences to the whole order of our social and political existence; nor will the most advanced of moderu thinkers deny our right to express our belief that such a revolution would be a terrible disaster, and to give the reasons on which that conviction rests. This we propose now to do. Forbearing reference to the authority of Scripture, we limit our appeal to the facts and experiences of social life, the validity of which all will acknowledge. But we shall be disappointed if these reasons fail to show further that the new philosophy which professes to address itself to our judgment only, and to be based solely on facts, carries with it no authority either by its width of view or its consistency of argument. We serving to be noted, if we look back on The issue is, indeed, wholly one of fact, and as such we cheerfully accept it. do not deny or question the growth of a new school of moralists, who profess to find a foundation for law and ethics in considerations which leave altogether on one side the notion of a continued existence of mankind after death; but at the same time we have the fullest assurance that the inability to take account of and to explain all the phenomena of huIf the value of this belief depends on man life is to be charged not on their its truth, its importance depends on the opponents, but on themselves. Our apdegree in which it may affect the relations peal lies to these facts, not to the au- of human society. If all the legislative thority of systems against which they pro-and judicial concerns of the State can be test. Whatever may be our belief on this carried on without the least reference to such a belief, if we can play our parts on this earthly stage wholly unaffected by matters which carry us onward from the • The Problem of the World and the Church, reconsidered in Three Letters to a Friend. By a SEPTUAGENARIAN. Longmans. 1871. Fundamentals, or Bases of Belief concerning Man, God, and the Correlation of God and Man. By present into the future, then the question THOMAS GRIFFITH, A.M. Longmans. 1871. of continued existence may be fairly dis In this struggle we have to encounter some opponents whose trumpets give forth no uncertain sound; but we shall find that their hands are practically strengthened by others who profess not be arranged under their banners, but who avow their resolution to ignore all beliefs for which they cannot adduce strict scientific evidence, or at the least to take no count of them in discussing questions of morality and law. In such a controversy as this it is obviously wise to exclude, so far as may be possible, all personal considerations; and this must be our justification for citing opinions apart from the names of those who have entertained them. It is enough to remember that such opinions are propounded by a class of thinkers which is, perhaps, daily becoming more numerous; and the belief of the class may be more vividly realized by keeping out of sight the names of those who are active in propagating it. The Septuagenarian whose volume is cited at the head of this article has done well in discussing anonymously the "Problem of the World and the Church." missed as of no practical importance. But | tainly live to be old men and women, and if it be not so, all other topics become that they will either reap the fruit of their comparatively insignificant, and they who childish virtues in a prosperous and happy are not willing to yield up all that dis- life, or pay the penality of childish vices tinguishes man from the brute must here in a series of disasters; and it is urged fight the battle and win the victory, if it that if in children we have only to awaken is ever to be won at all. the instinctive feelings of truthfulness, gentleness, and unselfishness to insure a course of action which shall be in accordance with those feelings, we may with the same confidence work on the minds of young men, feeling sure that we shall see in them the same results. The dulness of the sight which fails to discern the difference of conditions in the two cases is astonishing. The child, in the first place, knows his parents, and has some experience of their actions, and hence of their motives. He knows, more or less clearly, that they desire his real good, and that, so far as their power may extend, their care and affection will not be cut short at any particular period, or by accidents which it may be impossible to foresee. We may well ask how it would be with the child if he could be convinced that in any case his father could take no heed of him after eighteen or twenty years at most, and that any chance accident might at any moment in the interval remove him from his influence or deprive him of his love. The certainty that a very few years must be the limit of the fatherly and filial relations would naturally inspire him with hatred Nothing can be more certain than that for conditions of life which he must remen may go through long courses of ac-gard as the result of wanton and disintertion without losing energy, so long as their ested cruelty; the possibility that the alspirits are not damped by studied prognos-loted period might be cut short at any tications that they must either fail or at best hour by some chance or accident would achieve a partial and inadequate success. only serve to bring that cruelty into The case is altered if from day to day they greater prominence, and to invest it with are made to listen to such forebodings ex- a more grim and horrible colouring. But pressed with unequivocal assurance; and by our hypothesis the grown man is told it is not too much to say that the effects that his own filial relation to God cannot of such a change of circumstances seem to be extended much beyond seventy years, be altogether forgotten by the thinkers because at the end of that time, if not who hold that the conditions of childhood sooner, the extinction of this relation will furnish a point of likeness to those of come with the extinction of life. It is grown men who profess to live without urged further that divers philosophical expectation of any life to follow the pres- and theological systems have taken no ent one. It is regarded as ridiculous to note of the continuance of life after death, suppose that children cannot be brought and that the decay of the national life of to obey the commands of their parents un- the Jews may be traced from the moless they can be assured that they will cer- ment when the idea of a future existence |