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interests of humanity has been generally acknow- 
ledged; but where was the concrete representative 
of things invisible, which would have the force and 
the toughness necessary to be a breakwater against 
she Deluge ? ; 
“Three centuries ago, the establishment of 
religion—material, legal, and social—was generally 
adopted as the true expedient for the purpose in 
those countries which separated from the Catholic 
Church, and for a long time it was successful; but 
now the crevices of those establishments are ad- 
mitting the enemy. "Thirty years ago! education 
was relied upon. "Ten years ago there was a hope 
that wars would cease for ever, under the influence 
of commercial enterprise and the reign of the useful 
and fine arts. But will any one venture to say 
there is anything anywhere on this earth which 
will afford a fulerum for us whereby to keep the 
earth from moving onwards ? 
“The ‚judgment which experience passes on 
astablishments, on education, as a means of main- 
‘aining religious truth in this anarchical world, must 
be extended even to Scripture, though Seripture 
be divine. Experience proves surely that the Bible 
vg written