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forces of physics. Induction transferred from one field to another, without fresh starting points and new limitations, is really disguised and unsafe deduction. Knowledge stalks on with alternate strides, and, in the rhythm of progress, the swing of one limb makes way for that of the other. The movement is in truth somewhat more complex than here indicated. In the earlier periods of thought, the notion of spontaneity crowds upon that of causation; physical events are displaced by spiritual ones, or are referred to supersensual causes. Hence come the endless throng of superstitions. These at length are driven back by science, and the reverse error commences. Causes take the place of powers within the domain of mind itself, and an unreasonable skepticism displaces unreasonable belief. Later the mind learns to balance its convictions, and make them proportionate within themselves.

The mind measures all things by the scope of its own powers too much to rest on the naked facts of the world. The forces which they disclose and the plan which they reveal, with the wisdom of its conception and the kindness of its execution, push the thoughts farther back to the source of these truly intellectual and moral elements. The progress, also, which is discovered, together with that irresistible claim which the mind institutes for completion, for ends reached and fruits achieved, push it forward in thought, and lead it willingly to gather up the issues of existence into the hand of Him who gave it. That this movement may be final, that a true compass and circuit, source and conclusion of the actual, the finite and the necessary, may be found; that the mind may rest in one last stroke of comprehension, it brings forward the highest of its intellectual solvents the Infinite, the Absolute. A free and holy personality is to be made to the mind and heart, the cause and compass of the universe. This movement becomes complete and assured in connection