e filled on party considerations.
Learning goes for nothing. Thus inferior men are elevated to a platform
from which they deliver their dicta with authority, and ignorance can
contradict knowledge at an advantage. The mutual understanding among the
party enables them to puff each other's books, and run down their
opponents. Only learning can get no hearing."[168]

A number of writers have been furnished with a creed by the literature
of which we have spoken, and are now endeavoring to teach it to the
people. Their system has many names, among which are, Positivism,
Secularism, and Socialism. Consummate shrewdness is exhibited in its
presentation to the people, "the children of this world" sustaining
their old reputation for superior wisdom. The circulating libraries
abound in its books, and the newspaper and six-penny pamphlet are used
as instruments for its wider dissemination.

The Protestant church of Great Britain has no time for idleness, and
cannot afford to waste any truth-power while so many enemies are
assailing its walls. When the crisis shall have passed it will be seen
that not a superfluous hand was lifted in the combat. What British and
American Protestantism needs to-day is not a class of discoverers of new
truth, but that the defenders of the old truth, availing themselves of
every new step of science and criticism, be chivalric in opposing their
adversaries, and watchful of the interests which God has placed in their
keeping.

FOOTNOTES:

[142] _National Review_, Oct., 1856.

[143] _Introductory Essay to Coleridge's Works._ Vol. i., pp. 21-22.
Harper's edition.

[144] Letter dated Shrewsbury, Jan. 19th, 1798, to Mr. Isaac Wood, High
St., Shrewsbury.

[145] _Biographia Literaria._ Appendix III., p. 709.

[146] _Introductory Essay to Coleridge's Works_, vol. i., pp. 35-36.

[147] _Works_, vol. i., p. 115.

[148] _Works_, p. 241. The full argument is contained on pp. 241-253.

[149] Ibid. vol. i., pp. 269-271.

[150] _Works_, vol. i., p. 308.

[151] Ibid, p. 325.

[152] _Mission of the Comforter._ Note 8a.

[153] _Sermons on the Law of Self-Sacrifice, and the Unity of the
Church._

[154] _Sermon on John_, xix., 30.

[155] _Theological Essays._ Second Edition. London, 1853. Maurice has
published thirty-four works. _Vid._ Low's _English Catalogue_,
1835-1862, pp. 509-510.

[156] _Lectures on the Old Testament_, p. 6.

[157] Ibid. pp. 3-6.

[158] _Unity of the New Testament._ _In