belief in those Creeds and those
Scriptures which are committed to our keeping, then our philosophy
cannot be that which is just now in vogue. But all we have to do, I
believe, is to wait. Nominalism, and that "Sensationalism" which
has sprung from nominalism, are running fast to seed; Comtism seems
to me its supreme effort: after which the whirligig of Time may
bring round its revenges; and Realism, and we who own the Realist
creeds, may have our turn. Only wait. When a grave, able, and
authoritative philosopher explains a mother's love of her newborn
babe, as Professor Bain has done, in a really eloquent passage of
his book on the "Emotions and the Will" (Second Edition, pp. 78,
79), then the end of that philosophy is very near; and an older,
simpler, more human, and, as I hold, more philosophic explanation of
that natural phenomenon, and of all others, may get a hearing.

Only wait; and fret not yourselves, else shall you be moved to do
evil. Remember the saying of the wise man: "Go not after the
world. She turns on her axis; and if thou stand still long enough
she will turn round to thee."

Footnotes:

{0} The Macmillan and Co. book from which this eBook was
transcribed ("Scientific Lectures and Essays") also contains "Town
Geology". However, as Charles Kingsley published that as a separate
book it is not included here. It is available from Project
Gutenberg.--DP.

{1} An Address given to the Scientific Society of Winchester, 1871.

{181} A Lecture delivered to the Officers of the Royal Artillery,
Woolwich, 1872.

{201} A Lecture delivered at the Royal Institution, London, 1867.

{223} For an account of Sorcery and Fetishism among the African
Negros, see Burton's "Lake Regions of Central Africa," vol. ii. pp.
341-60.

{229} A Lecture delivered at the Royal Institution.

{262} A Lecture delivered at the Mechanics' Institute, Odiham,
1857.

{290} Lecture delivered at Reading, 1846.

{313} Novalis, I think, says that one's own thought gains quite
infinitely in value as soon as one finds it shared by even one other
human being. The saying has proved true, at least, to me. The
morning after this paper was read, I received a book, "The Genesis
of Species, by St. George Mivart, F.R.S." The name of the author
demanded all attention and respect; and as I read on, I found him,
to my exceeding pleasure, advocating views which I had long held,
with a learning and ability to which I have