so have some
in past ages or in other countries. We add but one other term--we
love. We would perfect our submission and so reap the full benefits of
submission in the improvement of our hearts and tempers. We take in
conception the sum of the conditions of existence, and we give them an
ideal being and a definite home in space, the second great creation
which completes the central one of Humanity. In the bosom of space we
place the world, and we conceive of the world and this our Mother Earth
as gladly welcomed to that bosom with the simplest and purest love, and
we give our love in return.

Thou art folded, thou art lying
In the light which is undying.

'Thus we complete the Trinity of our religion, Humanity, the World, and
Space. So completed we recognise power to {243} give unity and
definiteness to our thoughts, purity and warmth to our affections,
scope and vigour to our activity. We recognise its powers to regulate
our whole being, to give us that which it has so long been the aim of
all religion to give--internal union. We recognise its power to raise
us above ourselves and by intensifying the action of our unselfish
instincts to bear down unto their due subordination our selfishness.
We see in it yet unworked treasures. We count not ourselves to have
apprehended but we press forward to the prize of our high calling. But
even now whilst its full capabilities are unknown to us, before we have
apprehended, we find enough in it to guide and strengthen us.'--'_The
New Religion in its Attitude towards the Old_: A Sermon preached at
South Field, Wandsworth, Wednesday, 19th Moses 71 (19th January 1859),
on the anniversary of the birth of Auguste Comte, 19th January 1798, by
RICHARD CONGREVE.' J. Chapman: 8 King William Street, Strand, London.

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APPENDIX XVIII

'We have compared Positivism where it is thought to be strongest with
Christianity where it is thought to be weakest. And if the result of
the comparison even then has been unfavourable to Positivism, how will
the account stand if every element in Christianity be taken into
consideration? The religion of humanity seems specially fitted to meet
the tastes of that comparatively small and prosperous class who are
unwilling to leave the dry bones of Agnosticism wholly unclothed with
any living tissue of religious emotion, and who are at the same time
fortunate enough to be able to persuade themselves that they are
contributing, or m