Year: 1878

the original productions which gOred the sudden fame
OF Harte bottle OF eeryescent water suggests
the flavor of the sparkling liquid as 1t gushes iro tne
natural spring The materials may be detected IN
the artificial beverage, there the spurt and 1oan anu
pleasant saness but the vital spirit wanting and no
briskness of movement supply the place OF the
racy pungency Of the living source. 1t Is still
Bret Harte but Bret Harte decanted, II not diluted
They might have been charming, these laDored rag
ments II had not already enjoy so many specimens
in the kind Of finer quality They are mostly made
up "reminiscences Of the primitive California e ex-
amples OF human nature in the rough and dro exagge
ratons Of social state which hardly survives IN the
tenacious memory. Touches there certainly are OF
the errac author in his best estate and though they
have not the peculiar flavor which has won for him such


host Of admirers, they at immense remove from
the faness and vapdity which so often found In
the current storytelling


THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, July.


The number opens with paper on The
Place of Conscience in Evolution" by the Rev. T. W.
Fowle offering reply to the objection that evolution
in which the writer is firm believer can give no salts
factory of the origin of morality and the genesis
OF conscience Some religious thinkers have gone 80 fs
that the idea of duty OF divine obligation
must perish If the nature and growth OF conscience
could be explained part Of the evolution OF the race
by natural causatiOn. The writer attacks tne
question by laying down q simple definition
OF conscience as the power which the mmo
possesses Of discerning rghtness Just as we discern
something called beautiful which We must ADMIRE or
something called pleasurabe which We must seeR 30 DO
we perceive something right which we must do Can
then evolution help us to perceive how the idea OF
absolute rghtness came into the world Mr.. Fowle
explains this by vigorous analysis Of the conditions OF
the prmeval man. according to the theory OF evolution
showing the germ Of conscience in the original struggle
for existence which the thinking person perceives
that he has right to bis existence, and that bis
surroundings should be such to make life possible
to him at once and in due time useful and enjoyable
Such were the first thoughts OF the first conscience, the
first expression Of the conviction that there was
rightness in the world From this prolific germ,
the writer argues has grown the vast fabric Of human
morality together with the delicate machinery Of the
individual conscience it is manifested in civilized 90
cety Morality consists in transferring to other beings
like ourselves those rights which feel that we our
selves possess in learning that what due from them to
is also due to them from u.s. in adjusting the rights OF
individuals within the limits Of one society, and finally,
In forming to ourselves notions Of abstract right by
the methods Of philosophical inquiry The arguments
Of the writer will doubtless fail TO produce conviction in
the minds OF the ethical students who adhere to diff
ferent philosophical school from his own, but every
one must be impressed with the acuteness OF bis
reasOnings and the ingenuity Of his illustrations "The
History Of the International Association" by George
Howell is seasOnabe and instructive article, relating
the practical workings Of that institution from its esab
lishment in 1864 to It's demise in 1871 Other impor-
tant articles in this number Protected Princes in
India" by Sir David Wedderburn, "Jews and Judaism,
by Rabbi Hermann Adler, and Impressions Of America.
by r. W. Dale