he recognition of Revealed Truth, she
must be there to see that it is a _bona fide_ recognition, sincerely made
and consistently acted on.

6.

II. And if the interposition of the Church is necessary in the Schools of
Science, still more imperatively is it demanded in the other main
constituent portion of the subject-matter of Liberal
Education,--Literature. Literature stands related to Man as Science stands
to Nature; it is his history. Man is composed of body and soul; he thinks
and he acts; he has appetites, passions, affections, motives, designs; he
has within him the lifelong struggle of duty with inclination; he has an
intellect fertile and capacious; he is formed for society, and society
multiplies and diversifies in endless combinations his personal
characteristics, moral and intellectual. All this constitutes his life; of
all this Literature is the expression; so that Literature is to man in
some sort what autobiography is to the individual; it is his Life and
Remains. Moreover, he is this sentient, intelligent, creative, and
operative being, quite independent of any extraordinary aid from Heaven,
or any definite religious belief; and _as such_, as he is in himself, does
Literature represent him; it is the Life and Remains of the _natural_ man,
innocent or guilty. I do not mean to say that it is impossible in its very
notion that Literature should be tinctured by a religious spirit; Hebrew
Literature, as far as it can be called Literature, certainly is simply
theological, and has a character imprinted on it which is above nature;
but I am speaking of what is to be expected without any extraordinary
dispensation; and I say that, in matter of fact, as Science is the
reflection of Nature, so is Literature also--the one, of Nature physical,
the other, of Nature moral and social. Circumstances, such as locality,
period, language, seem to make little or no difference in the character of
Literature, as such; on the whole, all Literatures are one; they are the
voices of the natural man.

I wish this were all that had to be said to the disadvantage of
Literature; but while Nature physical remains fixed in its laws, Nature
moral and social has a will of its own, is self-governed, and never
remains any long while in that state from which it started into action.
Man will never continue in a mere state of innocence; he is sure to sin,
and his literature will be the expression of his sin, and this whether he
be heat