ay contribute, by their individual efforts to the
attainment of some great ideal for mankind. But what has it to say to
the more obscure multitude who are absorbed, and wellnigh overwhelmed,
in the constant struggle with daily needs and narrow cares, who have
but little leisure or inclination to consider the precise role they are
called on to play in the great drama of "humanity," and who might in
any case be puzzled to discover its interest or its importance? Can it
assure them that there is no human being so insignificant as not to be
of infinite worth in the eyes of Him Who created the Heavens, or so
feeble but that his action may have consequence of infinite moment long
after this material system shall have crumbled into nothingness? Does
it offer consolation to those who are in grief, hope to those who {245}
are bereaved, strength to the weak, forgiveness to the sinful, rest to
those who are weary and heavy laden? If not, then whatever be its
merits, it is no rival to Christianity. It cannot penetrate or vivify
the inmost life of ordinary humanity. There is in it no nourishment
for ordinary human souls, no comfort for ordinary human sorrow, no help
for ordinary human weakness. Not less than the crudest irreligion does
it leave us men divorced from all communion with God, face to face with
the unthinking energies of Nature which gave us birth, and into which,
if supernatural religion be indeed a dream, we must after a few
fruitless struggles be again resolved.'--RIGHT HON. ARTHUR J. BALFOUR,
_The Religion of Humanity_.

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APPENDIX XIX

'Truly if Humanity has no higher prospects than those which await it
from the service of its modern worshippers its prospects are dark
indeed. Its "normal state" is a vague and distant future. But better
things may yet be hoped for when the true Light from Heaven shall
enlighten every man, and the love of goodness shall everywhere come
from the love of God, and nobleness of life from the perfect Example of
the Lord.'--JOHN TULLOCH, D.D. LL.D., _Modern Theories in Philosophy
and Religion_, p. 86.

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APPENDIX XX

Mr. Frederic Harrison came under the influence of both the Newmans.
'John Henry Newman led me on to his brother Francis, whose beautiful
nature and subtle intelligence I now began to value. His _Phases of
Faith, The Soul, The Hebrew Monarchy_ deeply impressed me. I was not
prepared either to accept all this heterodoxy nor yet to reject it; a