, 1873-05-19

love mingled as an Interviewing OF intellect, anc
sesp Bsfefe tho soa sp:eses sast Of such friendship i
the modern discourse about the bondage of mag.
Iiage appears as a." madness. :, THAT food o1
platform eloquence that rising in our Atlantic
border has spread Westward as the Black Death
that once: spread out. from Asia, seems to roll
back from this tomb as though God stood there,
SAYING, g Thus far end no farther :
These two studied the Same works and altor-
-uated with each other in writing for ttg Reviews
and in the deep work upon human Liberty.
' With these- two FOULS before us, all the modern
that. term, como to us as from "a world Of
mingled yicc and bFutl5m, and leave us fapt m
tile admiration OF IN afinitysof mind, Of spirit,
Of purity, OF ofinlmortalty. Il 70 1:.,<:..
It mny DO that not many can reach such vast,
faultIcss friendship bnt there it stands; the
Of. this marriage, divorce forms no more an
element than it forms an element in the fathers
or mothers -loye;:fur her child: :: The mother
demands no exchange. There 5 is no, ;ro-
nance that may transfer her love. from
her :.child to THAT Of some foreign. home.
This friendship is bafled only by death.~ Mar
rage IL JUST such an impefishab1e, unaltetabIe
thing. :. .s.,,>s'+-~ d - g. .:i;t- x <a
Wien one Of our loading citizens. .. .fev weeks
since, wrung bis hands in agony upon the banks
the waves, when tho eye could not SEQ him nor
tho hand help, We beheld in that scene friend
ship that nothing but death could terminate.
The only divorce of fathers love for his son
While the tears Of Stuart Mil we're falling over
the tomb OF his 11nrivaled wife, the civilized
world perceived that the marriage designed OF
God is one that nothing but the grave can end,
and then BY q profound sorrow.'. =: ::
; But there is no perfection upon these shores.
And now We come to the shadow that falls across
this: grave BY day and night: That Mr. hill
did not accept the orthodox creed, is not, what q
liberal world need regret tho most, but that he
revealed little of the religions sentiment and
hope is what ne ust'confess to be shadow
PHI His ca career yer6es what ha7e said here so
often that 1t hns become, I fear, wearisome to
you, that the intellect alone does not lead to q
Savior or q God in the religious sense. Mr.
NDl, like Locke and Buckle, Darwin and Tyn-
dali, so idoIized the rational faculty, so idolzed
the visible, the tangible, and theimmedate, that
the sentiments seem to have perished by neg
:. When the human mind will go no farther than
it can see clearly it cannot go far from its era
de-: It argues Little against. the central truths
have rejected their claims, for they: have gone
further. and have, for the most part,
dealt with deism itself just as with christianity.
Their hearts do not fail Of Christianity, but OF
all religion. = .
This phenomenon OF thousands Of practical
me- that the religious world Is fabls, but does
teach me that there are sentiments In the heart
which, il sl1ghted, vii convert the earth into .
laboratory, and death and love and wisdom and
Victor ;nd r. Cousin, Of France, was tho riynl Of
Stuart, Mil in wisdom in genius, il intellect
and 80 Guizot: These three we're similar and
etrihngly great. But tha two latter possessed
the power OF sentiment. That, golden atmos-
phere Of love and hope that hangs around relig-
ion enveloped Victor Cousin IN its Me-giving
folds Setting out from the same points of
Heagen and Mr.. Mill to the practical of this life; !;
to the happiness Of man here, and then paused.
Oh, what deep mystery Of human life il here:
From the same fathers sids,
From the same mothers knee,
Ono journeys to gloomy tide
One to peaceful sea.
And Couain and Guizot teach us that there is
no mental greatness too large for religion. Thai
religion depends upon the worlds credulity; but
mented Mill, that religious sentiment is q divine
part OF human character, and ought to- make it's
sunlight play in every bosom; and that tile more
gifted the genius the -sweeter and mora divine
may be it's colors in the souls horizon. ::