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however, we cannot believe: yet there has been no other such man. His doctrine lives, in proof of his lofty nature.—Nor are we about to offer any objection to that doctrine as now understood; but we shall question the foundation upon which that doctrine is properly grafted—the proper condition of the mind before it should act upon Christ's precepts.

It is not astonishing, as history chronicles the horrors of barbarism and ignorance, to find mankind seeking hope and comfort only in the opposite direction. Man swings from one extreme to another: and now it is reckoned the height of civilization, when there is but a breath of opposition to the notion that all men indiscriminately should be cultivated in the direction of suavity and intellectuality. It is taken for granted that all men are too selfish, too thick- skinned, thick-skulled, arrogant, cruel, and obstinate,—and that proper cultivation consists, without exception, in softening the hard, refining the coarse, and rendering pliant and amenable the stiff and stubborn. And that treatment which would fit the ancient Romans, with all their courage, combativeness, destructiveness, and bodily strength, is assumed to be equally applicable to entire modern nations who may, perhaps, lack a sufficient foundation of these Roman qualities to give a firm basis for the superstructure which Christ taught men to build.

Men are forced to acknowledge in practice, however they may fail to recognize in theory, the mighty social power, for good as well as for evil, of that predominance of animal spirits—that warmth and vehemence of personal feeling which in excess com-