igher fidelity and
deeper trust. At the outset was "the process of crystallization;" at the
end came "malice toward none, charity for all," "fidelity to the right as
God gives us to see the right." At last the sunrise of the nation's new
day shone full upon him. Then suddenly, painlessly, he passed into the
mystery beyond. He was loved by his people as they never loved any other
man. The world prizes its happy souls, but it takes to its inmost heart
him who is faithful in darkness.

[1] Jowett's translation.

[2] I have followed George Long's translation of Epictetus.

[3] In the language of Renan: "By this word [supernatural] I always mean
the _special_ supernatural act, miracle, or the divine intervention for a
particular end; not the general supernatural force, the hidden Soul of
the Universe, the ideal, source, and final cause of all movements in the
system of things."

IV

GLIMPSES

The virtue of truth-seeking is a modern growth. The love of
speculative truth, indeed, shines far back in antiquity, in individuals
or in little companies. But the truth-seeking quality has had its
special training through the pursuits of physical science. The
achievements of three centuries in this direction have been made under
the constant necessity of attention to reality, at whatever cost to
prepossession or desire. Watchfulness, patience, self-correction are
the requisites. There is the discipline of what Huxley calls "the
perpetual tragedy of science,--the slaying of a beautiful theory by an
ugly fact." This courage, patience, humility of the intellect, long
exercised on secondary problems, wrought into habitual and accepted
traits of the explorer, are called on at last to face the direst
ordeal. The human mind confronts the question, "Are my dearest faith
and love and hope based on reality?" To face that question, and face
it through; to yield to no despondency, however dark the answer; to
hold sometimes the best attainable answer, whether of affirmation or
denial, as only provisional, and wait for further light, whether it
come now or in a remote future, whether it come to him or to some
other,--this measures the greatness of the human spirit.

It is in this respect that our moral standards, compared with those of
Christendom for eighteen hundred years, have in a sense undergone not
merely a development but reversal. In that passage upon charity in
which the genius of early Christianity wings it